Tucker asks to give evidence to MPs Paul Tucker, deputy Bank of England governor, has asked to give evidence to the MPs probing the manipulation of interbank lending rates "as soon as possible," after Barclays released documents that dragged the central banker into the centre of the scandal. Mr Tucker, seen as the frontrunner to succeed Sir Mervyn King when he steps down as governor next year, "is keen to give evidence to the committee in order to clarify the position with regard to the events involving the Bank of England, including the telephone conversation with Bob Diamond on 29 October 2008," the BoE said in a statement released on Wednesday. Mr Diamond is due to give evidence to the Treasury select committee later on Wednesday, a day after he resigned as Barclays chief executive amid mounting outrage over the attempted rigging of the Libor rate-setting process. Following Mr Diamond's departure, Barclays dragged Mr Tucker and "senior Whitehall figures" from the last government into the controversy by publishing the former chief executive's contemporaneous notes of a conversation with the deputy governor. The notes suggested Mr Tucker and the officials may have known of - and even condoned - the bank's repeated "lowballing" of its submissions to the rate-setting process during the financial crisis.