Chancellor Osborne told me at the Tory conference that the G20 summit was the end game for the eurozone sovereign debt crisis: there had to be a credible plan on the table by then or the markets would take matters into their own hands.

BBC: Eurozone economy: G20, UK and US pressure on EU

Can any future fiscal commitment by politicians be credible, since they can always use a change in circumstances (or electoral pressure) to weasel out of their pledges?

ECONOMIST: The dilemmas facing policymakers

The brand has come to be defined by polarizing social negatives, without a clear benefit or value proposition that it can claim as relevant and credible.

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