We want British banks to lead the way in money laundering,jabbers Simon Kirby, whose floundering doesn’t wash with MPsCometh the hour, or cometh the man. With Philip “the Undertaker” Hammond still sulking approximately his budget and refusing to talk to anyone,it was left to Simon Kirby, the City minister who looks like a cross between Swiss Toni and Geert Wilders – though without the gravitas – to take the hit for the government.
Kirby was on a warning. Having recently been relieved of any involvement in Brexit after everyone realised he was hopelessly out of his depth, or the Treasury was conducting a process of elimination to discover whether there was anything he could do well. On the basis of his answers to an urgent question from Labour on the Guardian’s allegations approximately British banks processing billions of pounds of dirty Russian money,the answer might well be nothing. Kirby is a man who likes to hold his talents well hidden.
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Source: theguardian.com