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AS Harriet Harman is well aware, every hard-pressed taxpayer will heartily agree that former RBS chief Sir Fred Goodwin should be stripped of his scandalous Pounds 693,000-a-year pension.
But will that happen? Or was the deputy Labour leader's outburst mere bluster, playing to the populist gallery? All the evidence so far suggests Sir Fred's monstrous pension was agreed in a legally- binding contract, signed off by the Government. What's more, the disgraced banker claims he accrued much of it before he joined RBS, the bank he led to ruin.See the full content of this document
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A Chilling Threat to the Rule of Law [Scot Region]
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