Banks must sell 'significant' number of branches, says Ed Miliband

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Ed Miliband and Ed Balls have denied that the Bank of England Governor Mark Carney disagrees with Labour's bank proposals   Ed Miliband will today promise to create at least two new challenger lenders by forcing Britain’s biggest high street banks to sell a “significant” number of branches. The Labour leader claims that, if elected, one of his first acts would be to order the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to produce a report on how to cap the market share of the big banks and encourage new competitors. The new challengers would be formed by forcing the country’s largest lenders to offload hundreds of branches and would be up and running before the end of the next parliament in 2020.

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EARWHACKER  Samuel Beckett’s monologue Not I is rarely performed — and it’s easy to see why. The performer has to memorise a stream of fragmentary phrases and speak them with only her spotlit mouth visible, eight feet above the stage. In the current Beckett triple bill at the Royal Court, later transferring to the Duchess Theatre, Lisa Dwan makes the job even harder for herself by choosing to spout the text at breakneck speed. The whole thing lasts just nine minutes. It’s a brave and impressive choice, and justified to an extent by Beckett’s own opinion that it should be performed “at the speed of thought” and should act on the audience’s nerves rather than their intellect. Lisa Dwan performs in Becket's late plays Photo: Alastair Muir  worked : Erma Xhillari