Public 'wants G20 stimulus deal'

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The UK public sees securing a deal on kick-starting the global economy as the most pressing issue for next week's G20 summit in London, a survey suggests.

The study, by pollsters Opinium Research, found 50% of respondents said signing such an agreement should be the key concern for the world leaders.

This compares with 29% who said tackling excessive bank bonuses should be the main issue of the event.

The survey spoke to 2,007 people across the UK earlier this month.

Each was asked to choose which two issues likely to be discussed at the G20 meeting that they considered to be the most important.

Tough action

A further 25% of respondents said that securing agreement on a new set of regulations for the global financial sector should be the central theme of the talks among the world's 20 leading economies.

However, 16% of those polled said the talks should focus on tougher action against money laundering.

In addition, 11% said recapitalisation of the banking sector was most important, and 10% prioritised bringing tax havens into the regulatory net.

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The need for a new global stimulus package is being backed by the US government.

By contrast, European countries - led by Germany - see the need for new regulation as the more important issue.

They say that no more stimulus packages should be agreed until the existing ones have been shown to start working.

Turning their attention to domestic UK politics, 55% of respondents said they thought Prime Minister Gordon Brown was relying upon the G20 summit for a bounce in the polls.

Meanwhile, one in three said the summit would be "completely irrelevant to their lives".