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PM: 'We'll help HBOS workers'
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised to do all he can to help HBOS staff affected by the recent announcement on job cuts.
About 80 staff are expected to go at the Halifax head office in Trinity Road and the Copley data centre as the Lloyds Banking Group makes 2,100 redundancies nationwide.
"I visited the Halifax and talked to staff earlier this year and I understand their frustrations – they have served the bank well," Mr Brown told the Commons.
"But they are the victims of what has happened to HBOS in its worldwide activities and particularly its failures in other countries.
"We will do what we can to help the staff of HBOS and Lloyds TSB and we are also making it possible for people to have new facilities to find jobs in the area."
Mr Brown was responding to a plea by Halifax Labour MP Linda Riordan yesterday for a clear message to be sent to bank bosses at Lloyds that further jobs cuts would be "totally unacceptable".
The Lloyds Banking Group announcement this week takes the total posts axed this year by the company to more than 7,000.
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