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<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/independent/2008/10/today-in-poli-5.html">Today in Politics: Bailing out the banks</a>

Wednesday 08 October 2008 10:16 BST
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A dramatic, historic, unprecedented press conference at Downing Street this morning, at which Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling outlined the Government's semi-nationalisation of the banks.

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