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Bankers roll in cash as pensioners freeze and children forced to go hungry
Campaigners slam the Chancellor after Britain’s four biggest banks made a record £45.9bn in profits for 2024
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RACHEL REEVES’S decision to protect fat cat bankers has lost the public £15 billion — money that could have saved freezing pensioners and hundreds of thousands of children from going hungry, a damning new report found today.

Campaigners for a windfall tax on banking profits slammed the Chancellor after it emerged that Britain’s four biggest banks made a record £45.9bn in profits for 2024.

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