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Farewell Ed Bramson, the corporate raider who promised to deliver a bloody nose for Barclays boss Jes Staley but ended up missing repeatedly and punching himself in the face instead.
It is an outcome that can only be described as an emphatic and embarrassing defeat for the New York-based Brit, who had built a near-£2bn stake propelling Sherborne to the top of the Barclays shareholder register.
The City seems glad to see the back of him - Barclays shares jumped nearly 3pc on the news - but Sherborne’s investors might not thank him for what amounts to a pretty fruitless three-year foray.