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Brown backs bank 'social contract'

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UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for a new "social contract" with the world's banks to make them more responsible to society.

Addressing the G20 finance ministers in St Andrews, Brown said that imposing any new tax or fee to fund future bail-outs would have to be a global agreement.

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