A couple of years ago, the Chancellor of the Exchequer came up with the idea of using the billons of pounds lying in dormant savings accounts across the UK to help combat poverty.
As you might imagine the overall reaction was rather mixed, ranging from those who welcomed the idea of using money abandoned or forgotten to those who thought Gordon Brown had a cheek to think he could make off with other people’s money regardless of whether they were dead or not….
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