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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

‘We’ve had a run on champagne:’ Biggest UK banker bonuses since financial crash

City workers drinking in Leadenhall Market, London.
City workers drinking in Leadenhall Market, London. Photograph: pixstory/Alamy

This week British bankers will start collecting the biggest bonuses since before the 2008 global financial crisis as their employers fight an “increasingly intense war for talent”.

As most Britons face the biggest squeeze on their incomes since at least 1990, already very highly paid bankers are celebrating “particularly obscene” bonuses in the City’s pubs and wine bars.

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