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...the election. Also addressing the congress earlier, the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, emphasised the need for more competition in the banking sector as well as the importance of splitting investment and retail banks. Meanwhile, the...

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...Transport for London has GBP40 million invested. Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg called for another round of co-ordinated worldwide interest cuts and action by the IMF to help Iceland. "The immediate short-term need is for the G7 and...

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...that Labour has left itself with a black hole of AGBP23 billion." The Liberal Democrats' Alistair Carmichael described the debt figures as "incredibly alarming". "This Budget is a short term fix designed to get the Labour party through...

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...world?" Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrats' Treasury spokesman, claimed the IMF report exposed Mr Brown's "lie" that Britain is well placed to deal with the recession, because it faces a bigger slowdown than Europe and the US. "The Prime...

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...Fund of the decision to cut VAT from 17.5% to 15% until the end of 2009. The Liberal Democrats tried to get it overturned in a Commons debate in December. Mr Cable said it was "seriously defective" as a way of getting money into the...

In this article: David Cameron, Recession, Vince Cable, Gordon Brown, Ideology, Capitalism, Tax, Credit crunch, and Tories

...reach 10 million. The government may also have to seek help from the International Monetary Fund "in the near future," he said told Liberal Democrat politicians in the European Parliament in a speech delivered in English. (Reuters)

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...the problem that he has to tackle." Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, said that the "lamentable failure" of the Government to get its forecasts right showed it was living in a "fantasy world". The Chancellor's predictions also met...

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And Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman Vince Cable said the massive cost from the failure of the banking system represented "a terrible failure on the part of the international banks and mortgage lenders and their regulators". Rising...

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...will be sold, with the proceeds being spent on poor nations. Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, said: "Gordon Brown has clearly passed the test as a host to the world. He must now prove he can turn this deal into real help for...

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