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Article: Angela fails to impress with her banking boasts ; CITY SPY

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The Evening Standard (London, England)
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October 16, 2007
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AH, THE Martyrdom of St Angela. Under the headline "Why was I the only one to defend banks?" Angela Knight tells how she was "the only person available to speak for the banking industry that Friday. I was in the BBC by ten past seven and I did 19 back-to-back interviews".

Hello, Angela? Aren't you the chief executive of the British Bankers'Association and wasn't Northern Rock, er, a bank? Wasn't that your job? In between dabbing his eyes and wondering if Knight should not be recommended for the George Cross, City Spy reads on. "Of course people can have confidence in the banking system. But you can't have confidence a mistake will never be made." That is genius. You can see why she became a ...

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