Cable: Northern Rock report is account of Treasury’s mismanagement

Vince Cable
“The Government’s inability to stop Northern Rock issuing high risk Together mortgages even after the bank started receiving state aid is a total disgrace.
“With billions of pounds of public money at stake, the least taxpayers should expect is that basic due diligence of the company’s loan book should have taken place before nationalisation. It seems ministers were keen to hide the scale of the bill that taxpayers were being asked to pick up.
“The fact that resolving shortcomings in the tripartite system wasn’t seen as a priority shows that Gordon Brown had his head in the sand. Ministers failed to listen to any of the warnings about the brewing storm.”
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