The Bruiser Handing Out a Battering to Our Greedy Bank Bosses ; Profile Treasury Select Committee Chair John Mcfall Is Shrugging Off the Snipers As He Earns His Spurs Tearing Into Those Behind the Financial Crisis

Evening Standard - London › March 04, 2009

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WHEN all this is over, who will emerge with their reputation enhanced, their place on the side of right assured? One person who is having a very good war is John McFall, chair of the Commons Treasury Select Committee.

Since 2001, the West Dunbartonshire Labour MP has headed a body that, until this crisis erupted, was known more for its ponderous examinations of macro-economics and respectful chats with Gordon Brown as Chancellor and Bank of England Governor Mervyn King than fearsome interrogations.

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The Bruiser Handing Out a Battering to Our Greedy Bank Bosses ; Profile Treasury Select Committee Chair John Mcfall Is Shrugging Off the Snipers As He Earns His Spurs Tearing Into Those Behind the Financial Crisis

McFall, 64, has become a modern witchfinder-general, responding with relish to the unfolding drama, riding out to seek perceived evil. Yesterday, he was in action again, putting John Kingman and Glen Moreno from UKFI through the wringer.

It's a familiar spectacle -- the hapless financiers and officials sitting at one end, the silver-haired McF...

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