Rudd attacks MPs for Diamond comments

Former Barclays deputy chairman Sir Nigel Rudd has slammed MPs for a "completely unacceptable" attack on the bank's embattled ex-boss Bob Diamond.

Mr Rudd said the Treasury Select Committee failed to provide sufficient evidence to back up its claims that Mr Diamond misled Parliament in hearings over the bank's rate-rigging scandal.

The comments come after initial findings of the committee's probe into Libor-fixing, which concluded Mr Diamond had been "highly selective" in his evidence to MPs.

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