If you listen to the webcast of yesterday’s Treasury Select Committee - where former banking titans were grilled by MPs - you can hear chairman John McFall talking to his deputy, Michael Fallon.
Fallon replies: “The trick is not to look at them. The foreman of a jury never looks at them..”
(Hat-tip to my colleague Jane Croft)
Jim Pickard and Alex Barker, FT Westminster correspondents, share the latest news and gossip from the UK's political scene.
Alex Barker has been an FT political correspondent since July 2007. He joined the paper in 2005, after working in current affairs television.
Jim Pickard joined the FT's lobby team in January 2008, having been a regional correspondent, assistant UK news editor and property correspondent.
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