The Loan Arranger

It is being claimed that Gordon Brown is personally involved in negotiations over a deal to save Britain's biggest mortgage lender the Halifax

The Prime Minister is said to have spoken to the chairman of Lloyds TSB to agree a merger with HBOS, which owns Halifax. Mail



Back in August we were told that Howard Brown the cheery employee who fronted eight years of adverts for Halifax is going to be ditched as the bank adopts a more serious tone in the credit-crunch. Telegraph
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