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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Nicholas Cecil and Simon English

Londoners and under-40s hardest hit by Britain’s mortgage rate mayhem (and don’t forget renters)

Londoners and the under-40s will be hardest hit by the mortgage rise juggernaut battering Britain which is also sending rents spiralling, leading economists warned on Wednesday.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies laid out the scale of the exploding home loans crisis as fears sky-rocketed that the Bank of England will be forced to hike interest rates far higher than expected in a desperate bid to tame runaway inflation.

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