Labour must tread carefully in fees campaign

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Labour had a field day with the LIBOR scandal. Coming after four years of simmering public resentment against the financial sector, the scandal involving bankers manipulating rates at the expense of ordinary people could not be easier to capitalise on.

Leader Ed Miliband is right to hold the government to account on the system. That is the job of the Opposition and it does his party little harm with the electorate. However, while bankers know ...

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