Brown calls for global 'social contract'

Reported by Independent on Saturday, 7 November 2009 (on November 7, 2009)

Gordon Brown today called for a new global "economic and social contract" with the financial institutions to ensure taxpayers around the world would never again have to bear the cost of banking failure.

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