The lawyer appointed to head up the RIBA’s new board is said to be on the verge of stepping down – before he has even taken up his post.

Sir Nigel Carrington was appointed in April as the first chair of trustees after a long-awaited governance shake-up and was due to start in September.

Frantic negotiations are now taking place behind closed doors. It will come as an embarrassment to the RIBA which temporarily lost its other figurehead – president Alan Jones – after he stepped back at the start of the pandemic because of the fall-out from an extra-marital affair.

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