It amounts to an admission that earlier forecasts — which have dictated years of Government policy and will cost tens of billions of pounds — were wrong. (dailymail.co.uk)
Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union added: «The truth is, this government shamefully has very little interest in challenging wealthy individuals and big businesses who deprive our economy of tens of billions of pounds by dodging paying taxes they owe.» (politics.co.uk)
They had all been absorbed into larger banks, or gotten into trouble and had to be rescued; in the most spectacular case, Northern Rock had to be nationalized and kept afloat by tens of billions of pounds in public money. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)