Chancellor Alistair Darling told the Treasury Select Committee yesterday that he is keeping open the option of creating a so-called “bad bank”, through which the Government would buy toxic assets from UK banks. However, we are unconvinced that this would do much more good than the current asset protection scheme in terms of getting banks lending again.
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