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Just don't call it a U-turn

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The Prime Minister's Mortgage Rates - What Have They Done?

Average two year fixed rate mortgage stood at four and a half percent. There are now at six and a half per cent in rising, hitting average families with an extra £450 a month of mortgage payments every single month over and above what they've appeared. 37 days into the job, this is literally the cost of the Prime Minister's incompetence. They don't seem to understand and appreciate what they've done. They've created a crisis. We're in a real hole here. And yet we've got a government of Prime Minister, a chancellor, that keep making it worse. I think there's a lack of appreciation of everything that's happened since that financial statement and the damage that they've

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