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Clegg on bankers’ bonuses clampdown

By | Tue 13th April 2010 - 2:50 pm

If you missed LDV’s coverage of Nick Clegg’s plans to bring the bankers’ bonus culture under control this morning, then why not catch up with the BBC coverage of the announcment:

Here’s links to some of the media coverage the proposal has generated:

Lib Dems plan crackdown on City pay (FT.com)

Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, has promised to make reforming the City, including breaking up investment banks and cracking down on bonuses, one of his top four priorities should the Lib Dems emerge from the election holding the balance of power.

Clegg Pledges To Ban Bonuses At Failing Banks (Sky News)

The party has launched plans to make sure there can be “no rewards for failure” in the financial system. Mr Clegg said he wanted to see a change in the City of London “as fundamental as the Big Bang of the 1980s”.


Lib Dems: Smaller bonuses, smaller City? (Robert Peston, BBC)

Vince Cable’s voice has been louder than any other British politician’s since the Crunch became full-scale banking crisis. Where he leads, Labour and the Tories do not slavishly follow. But nor do they ignore him.

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