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In a file picture taken on April 23, 2008 Fred Goodwin, Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Bank of Scotland, speaks on his mobile phone as he leaves the Edinburgh International Conference Centre
Wednesday, Feb. 01, 2012

Open quoteThere is the faint whiff of the lynch mob on the village green about this, but that isn't to say that the end result isn't what is right.Close quote

  • LORD DIGBY JONES,
  • former Labour party chief, responding to the news that Royal Bank of Scotland's former head Fred Goodwin was stripped of his knighthood for bringing the financial system into disrepute for his role during the 2008 financial crisis
Photo: Ed Jones / AFP / Getty Images | Source: Daily Telegraph