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2 November 2011
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Dr Rowan Williams has made his first substantial response to the protest at St Paul?s Cathedral

The Archbishop of Canterbury has backed calls for a new tax on financial trading ? dubbed a ?Robin Hood? tax.

Dr Williams told the BBC the St Paul?s protests had raised awareness of the ?unfinished business? of financial sector reform.

He said the public had the feeling that changes to financial institutions were not coming fast enough.

David Cameron says there is widespread support for the principles of such a tax but it had to be adopted globally.

In an interview with BBC religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott, Dr Williams said the protests outside St Paul?s Cathedral by groups opposed to corporate

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