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Bishops: 'corrupt' debt culture

Updated on 28 December 2008

By James Blake

Leading Church of England bishops blame the government for the "moral corruption" of borrow and spend Britain.

In an interview for the Sunday Telegraph, the bishops of Durham, Winchester, Manchester, Carlisle and Hulme, said the government is at fault for encouraging people to get further into debt.

They accused ministers of pursuing "scandalous policies" and warned that the country was suffering under family breakdown, debt and poverty.

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