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David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said before an EU summit on the eurozone debt crisis that he would not agree to any treaty change ‘that fails to protect our interests’. Downing Street rejected suggestions by Iain Duncan Smith that a referendum on the EU would be made necessary by the changes proposed. Sir Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, said that the crisis posed an ‘exceptionally threatening environment’ for British banks and that they should increase their capital reserves in preference to paying dividends or bonuses. The Bank of England had earlier joined the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the central banks of Canada, Japan and Switzerland in a concerted effort to address the international debt crisis by easing lending. Christopher Logue, the poet, died, aged 85.
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Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, announced 60 goals for the National Health Service, the 58th of which was to reduce ‘incidence of medication errors causing serious harm’.
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