Poll: Should shamed HBOS exec Sir James Crosby give back his knighthood?

 

Wednesday 10 April 2013 04:56 EDT
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James Crosby during a Treasury Select Committee meeting
James Crosby during a Treasury Select Committee meeting (PA)

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Former HBOS chief executive Sir James Crosby has stepped down as non-executive director of catering firm Compass Group and said he wants to be stripped of his knighthood in the light of last week's scathing report into the bank's collapse. Is this a noble act of contrition, as our editorial suggests? Or too little, too late?

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