Article: NUKI'S EYE.(Brief Article)

It looks like Fred Woollard has been sent scurrying back to Monaco but Standard still has work to do

Congratulations to Standard Life which appears to have seen off Fred Woollard, the smarmy carpetbagger from Monaco who sought to have the Edinburgh company demutualised.

The final figures have, at the time of writing, yet to be announced but I understand that Mr Woollard has failed to attract anything like the 75 per cent majority he needed to win.

With luck he will now fly back to his cheesy tax haven of a home and suffer his humiliating defeat in private.

But perhaps that is to hope too much. Woollard, who knows no grace, was already ...

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