Osborne slates £39.2bn banks shake-up
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Osborne slates £39.2bn banks shake-up
Chancellor Alistair Darling has been giving details to the House of Commons about changes to Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland, requiring another injection of tax-payers' money.Shadow Chancellor George Osborne accused Mr Darling of not even being prepared to put the full figure of £39.2bn before MPs.Mr Osborne said this was equivalent to £2,000 per family.He added this was "bigger even than the bail-out last autumn" and a "new world record as the single biggest bail-out of any single bank anywhere in the globe''.
BBC | November 3, 2009
