Former Barclays CEO Jes Staley failed on Thursday to skirt a lifelong banishment from the UK banking industry over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein — with a judge ruling the ban was an “inevitable consequence” of his association with the dead pedophile.

Former Barclays boss Jes Staley on Thursday lost his high-stakes appeal against a proposed financial industry ban for misleading Britain's Financial Conduct Authority over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.