A senior labor party politician has demanded an investigation into whether Royal Bank of Scotland non-executives were threatened for doing their job.

According to the allegations about the financially distressed, bailed out bank:

"at least three of its former non-executive directors may have been intimidated and threatened with the sack for asking searching questions about its financial affairs

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The intervention by Lord Foulkes, who is also a member of the Scottish Parliament, comes amid fears that the bank will be exposed as Britain's equivalent of Enron"