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network closures will produce political fall-out, ne matter
how carefully we try to handle it The reduction in :
network will reduce our ability to extend social banking and
modern government into the very communities we most wish to
target. Our relations with jitsu, a major inward investor
into the UK over the past decade, would be severely damaged,
ag would the credibility of PFI.
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