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Hugh Muir's diary

published Tue, Nov 03 2009 18:15 GMT
Shunned and left to fester with the undesirables: the Euro Tories' brave new worldSo the banks will be broken up to meet demands from Europe. Another £39bn pumped into the system, we learned yesterday. Old names consigned to history may reappear. Exciting times, and in Europe one might have thought the Tories would be able to use their expertise in matters financial to good effect. Their Guide to the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European parliament boasts that "with seven new British MEPs who have vast and varied experience in finance and the city, the British Conservative party and the ECR will have unprecedented influence and expertise". But they have so alienated the other members of the economic ...

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