Serious Fraud Office investigators are in talks with the City watchdog over the Barclays rate-rigging scandal that has rocked the banking industry, the Chancellor said on Thursday.
George Osborne told MPs the affair exposed yesterday was "a shocking indictment of the culture of banks like Barclays in the run-up to the financial crisis".
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The hilarious thing is that the cancer I have is quite rare and a lot of people wrongly assume only old people get it, which makes you feel about 105 when they tell you this. Oh by the way you have cancer, you have cancer for old people....yeap, you are just old, with cancer....nice. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.CO.UK |
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