Diamond left "dismayed" after MPs question his honesty

Barclays former chief executive Bob Diamond has said he is "dismayed" MPs have questioned the truthfulness of answers he provided to the Treasury Select Committee.

Diamond, who resigned from Barclays last week after pressure from the Bank of England's governor Mervyn King, and in the wake of the LIBOR scandal, said comments from MPs during Barclays' chairman Marcus Agius' session yesterday were "unfair and unfounded". MPs listening to Agius' answers suggested there were discrepancies between what the two men had told them. Agius was asked if he had passed on the Financial Services Authority's "issues" with Diamond when he was appointed as chief executive in 2010. Agius said that he had. However when Diamond appeared before the committee last ...