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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Nicholas Cecil

Londoners face £200 monthly mortgage bill rise if Andy Burnham loses confidence of markets as Prime Minister

Andy Burnham was being warned not to make unfunded spending commitments which could spook the markets and send the cost of home loans soaring.

As he was set to take over from Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister, possibly within weeks, experts laid out the consequences of him losing the confidence of the markets.

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