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Banks 'running rings around government'

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There are concerns over whether the UK's biggest banks are hitting their lending targets.

Chris Leslie, shadow Treasury minister, and Angela Knight, chief executive of the British Bankers' Association, debate the accusation that Project Merlin is "barely worth the paper it's written on".


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