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Chancellor George Osborne is to sell off bailed-out Lloyds bank even as it continues to spend taxpayers' billions on repaying mis-selling victims.
The banking group confirmed yesterday it had set aside a further £1.8 billion for compensation, bringing total payouts to nearly £10bn over its flogging of useless payment protection insurance policies to customers.
Yet chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio cheerily went on to project underlying profits of £6.2bn for the past year.
Trade unions call for windfall tax hike to fund social energy tariff to public’s energy bills
Channel 4’s Dirty Business shows why private companies cannot be trusted with vital services like water, says PAUL DONOVAN
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests