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Mr Bridgeman also flatly rejected calls by the consumer-affairs minister, Kim Howells, for an inquiry into the prices of soft drinks served in public houses.
Second favourite is Donald Cruickshank, a soft-spoken Scot, who was formerly the telecoms regulator and is now conducting an inquiry for the Treasury into competition in banking.