User:Nick Gardner /Sandbox

(the Bank of England Act 1998 subsequently provided the necessary statutory authority).

"You presided over the biggest economic disaster of our lifetime and we will not let you forget it." (George Osborne, then Shadow Chancellor, October 13 2008[1]) "Our debt crisis is ... the result of reckless spending" (Kenneth Clarke, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, 6 October 2009[2])