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My advice for Burnham’s first budget? Hit the banks – and hit them hard | Polly Toynbee

My advice for Burnham’s first budget? Hit the banks – and hit them hard | Polly Toynbee

Bankers have barely begun to repay the billions they cost the country after 2008. In this PM they may have met their match Vibes matter. We live by how we feel – an idea that orthodox economics gets wrong and Andy Burnham’s first budget looks set to get right.

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