'Irresponsibility' fuelled meltdown: Brown
The Prime Minister has blasted the pay packets of many of the City's investment workers, arguing it contributed to financial losses of recent weeks
The Prime Minister has blasted the pay packets of many of the City's investment workers, arguing it contributed to financial losses of recent weeks
Gordon Brown has expressed concern over the size of bonuses paid to City
bankers.
Brown blamed ‘irresponsibility’ in addition to the City’s culture of bonuses as
having sparked the crisis in financial markets, the FT reported.
Planned measures are being discussed within the Financial Services Authority
(FSA), including the possibility of banks being obliged to retain capital if
excessive risks were carried out in securing bonuses.
‘There’s an element of the bonus system that is unacceptable… everyone knows
there is going to have to be changes in that,’ Brown said.
Along with Treasurer Alistair Darling, Brown has been under increasing
pressure to restrict executive bonuses.
A new middle-class tax cut funded by a 45% rate of tax on those earning more
than £175, 000 per year has also been proposed by MP’s and trade unions.
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