Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

What Andrew Bailey’s eyebrows can tell us about the NatWest scandal

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issue 05 August 2023

Enough said about the fall of Dame Alison Rose; more than enough about the second coming of Nigel Farage. But one question remains: what happened to the Governor’s eyebrows?

In former times, the fate of errant bank chiefs was unequivocally a matter for the Bank of England. Careers were sunk or salvaged by a twitch of the governor’s supercilia.

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