As if he didn't have enough to worry about already, prime minister Gordon Brown today faced his twice-yearly grilling by the chairmen of all the Commons committees.
He had the unenviable task of defending his choice of ex-HBOS chief Sir James Crosby for a senior role with City regulator the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in 2004.
Crosby resigned as deputy chairman of the FSA yesterday after claims from HBOS's former head of risk that he had been axed by him after warning that the bank was growing too fast.
Brown insisted whistleblower Paul Moore's allegations had been investigated by the FSA and found to be without substance, and that they were not the reason HBOS fell.
Rather, it "was because its whole business model was wrong."
If this was meant to be reassuring, it hasn't worked.
It seems ironic that the first casualty of yesterday's select committee, which questioned the men at the top of Britain's biggest banks - former HBOS chief executive Andy Hornby, his former chairman Lord Stevenson, former RBS CEO Sir Fred Goodwin and his former chairman Sir Tom McKillop - wasn't even there.
Inevitably Brown was also quizzed on the issue of the banks' 'bonus culture'.
The PM said: "The short-term bonus culture in banks has got to end and we are putting in measures that will bring that to an end."
At yesterday's committee the four bankers apologised for what had happened to their institutions, but did not say they were to blame for it, and denied behaving recklessly.
The debate looks set to run and run.
