Clifford sees no need to step aside QANTAS chairman Leigh Clifford heads into the airline's annual meeting in Brisbane tomorrow swatting away suggestions he should step aside while regulators investigate payments made by Barclays while he was a director of the British bank. Independent senator Nick Xenophon called for him to step aside yesterday after Fairfax Media reported authorities in the US and Britain were investigating the pound stg. 322 million Barclays paid to a company associated with the ruling family in Qatar.