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We're back to two Britains, with a vengeance and dismay

Norman Baker, Under-Secretary of State for Transport, says that the Government's powers over bonuses for Network Rail executives are "extremely limited".

The Government's power to remove £94 a week from a cancer sufferer who doesn't recover quickly enough – or die fast enough – is, in contrast, unfettered.

The Institute of Directors (IoD) is worried, meanwhile, that there is an "anti-business hysteria" developing in Britain because the commonality fail to understand executive pay. The IoD reports no such concerns from its members over the Government's intention to cut by half the money (currently a maximum of £54 a week) given to help the parents of disabled children.