Mark Simmons and Stuart Osborne, currently temporary commanders with the Met, and Ch Supt Ian Quinton of Norfolk Constabulary were named the new commanders on Wednesday.

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And Chancellor George Osborne and Treasury Minister Mark Hoban are before the Joint Committee on the Draft Financial Services Bill to discuss how to make us safe from a future banking crisis - that's at 3.45pm.

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But, of course, if Portes is right, a rise in the cost of money for George Osborne would not be a mark of failure - because it would be a corollary of our escape from recession.

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Mr Osborne has dismissed claims that his welfare reforms mark the end of the welfare state as "shrill, headline-seeking nonsense", arguing instead that they encourage people to work rather than rely on benefits.

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Barely a week has passed since George Osborne was being cheered in the House of Commons for securing the appointment of Mark Carney as the next Bank of England governor.

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Which is why George Osborne was very keen to recruit the governor of the Bank of Canada, Mark Carney, to succeed Sir Mervyn King in a rather bigger and more complex job, as governor of the Bank of England.

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