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MPs seek 'radical' bank reforms

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A cross-party committee of MPs has criticised two central planks of the government's approach to making safe the banking system, in the wake of a banking crisis that, in the UK at least, is the worst since 1914. Business editor Robert Peston discusses how MPs on the committee have urged ministers to ensure that taxpayers don't have to pick up the bill for future bail-outs.

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