A senior source said: "It's more important to get this right than to be hasty.

The senior source said: "The banks must decide if there is a deal to be done or not.

For now, as one senior source puts it, "there is a political silver lining to a large economic cloud".

A senior political source said: "The Budget was an accident waiting to happen."

In private, senior sources within the party do not mince their words, admitting: "They hate each other."

Three unnamed senior Palestinian sources state he has died.

The Post attributed this information to a "senior diplomatic source."

Their purpose is to allow any new administration to 'hit the ground running', as one senior source put it.

Braver than we thought he'd be," said one senior source.

"That's a radical change," according to one senior source.