Article: Between the lines: Kingman's exit will leave a huge space to be filled

THE surprise resignation of John Kingman as chief executive of UK Financial Investments has left a hole at the top of the government's plan to nurse Britain's state-aided banks back into private hands and has prompted questions about who might be out there ready and willing to take on one of the toughest jobs in the public sector.

Whatever his reasons for going - and he says only that he wants to take a (better paid) job in the City - it comes less than a year after he stepped into the role and after a chequered few months for the organisation that has the task of finding new owners for the government's 70 per cent stake in Royal Bank of Scotland and 43 per cent holding in Lloyds Banking ...

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