Bob Diamond 'misled Parlament' about Barclays He said: "I don't regard this as damning. I regard this as a firm letter from my regulator. The letter was not made available to the MPs before Mr Diamond gave evidence last week. Members of the committee said that Mr Diamond had failed to reveal the FSA's concerns in his evidence. Mr Tyrie told Mr Agius: "He didn't give a full and fair impression of his relationship with the regulator, did he? He described these strained exchanges as nothing more than a conversation. He added: "Is there any reason we should not conclude that he has treated Parliament with the same cavalier attitude with which he was treating the FSA?" John Mann, a Labour MP, told Mr Agius: "Mr Diamond has been misleading this committee, hasn't he?" Mr Agius said he could not comment directly on Mr Diamond's evidence to the MPs. He told the committee that Mr Diamond, who quit last Monday, has agreed to waive a severance package worth as much as £20 million. Instead, he leaves with half his annual salary of £1.35 million. Mr Agius also confirmed that Mr Diamond resigned after pressure from the Bank of England. At a meeting last Monday, Sir Mervyn King, the Bank's Governor, told Mr Agius and Mr Diamond that Mr Diamond no longer had the confidence of Britain's financial regulators. That meeting, Mr Agius, came as "a shock" because only a few days earlier, the Bank of England indicated that Mr Diamond had their support. Mr Tyrie said that Mr Agius' account of Mr Diamond's departure contradicted the account given by Mr Diamond, suggesting that Mr Diamond had not been wholly truthful "It will look to us and it will look to everyone listening like a complete lack of candour to Pariliament by the chief executive of Barclays," Mr Tyrie said.