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George Osborne's 2012 Mansion House speech in full

George Osborne's 2012 Mansion House speech in full

Here's the chancellor's Mansion House address, in which he announces details of new measures to boost the liquidity of Britain's banks and inject money into the 'real economy, in full:

'New firepower' deployed to help UK's shrinking economy

Sketch: Top marks for Osborne's youngest apprentice

Treasury sells Northern Rock to Virgin Money

'New firepower' deployed to help UK's shrinking economy

George Osborne delivers his Mansion House speech

Bank lending could be increased by as much as £80 billion under a bold new 'funding for lending' scheme unveiled by George Osborne and Mervyn King last night.

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Budget 2012: Credit easing 'no panacea' to struggling firms

Credit easing will help the bank lending problem - a bit

Britain's struggling small businesses will be able to secure cheaper bank lending as a result of the government's credit easing initiative unveiled today - but business leaders are warning it is not a "panacea" to the UK's bank lending problem.

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'Credit easing': Treasury announces new plan for lending

Lock down: Ministers have become increasingly exasperated by the failure of banks to lend to small-and-medium sized businesses.

The Treasury plans to lend money to small-and-medium sized businesses, after three years of failure in the banking sector.

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