A tale of two finance ministers: UK election rivals promise big spending
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LIVERPOOL/MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Two men are vying to be Britain's finance minister. One is a former banker who hangs a portrait of free-markets champion Margaret Thatcher on his office wall, the other is a proud socialist intent on overthrowing capitalism.On Thursday, Conservative incumbent Sajid Javid and the Labour Party's would-be finance minister John McDonnell used speeches to argue that the Dec. 12 election is a critical moment for the world's fifth-largest economy, and that..