First bonuses, now pensions : the UK government is getting desperate

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First bonuses, now pensions : the UK government is getting desperate

The government is backtracking on senior minister Harriet Harman’s, populist rant against Sir Fred Goodwin’s pension arrangements — and the implication that laws can be changed and applied retrospectively. But it can’t hide its increasingly reactive and desperate policymaking in the banking crisis.

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