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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Simon English

One in four of us use loans to cover day-to-day spending

One in four Brits are rely on credit to cover essential spending, new research shows, in a worrying sign for the consumereconomy.

And one in 10 customers admit they have exaggerated their income in a desperate search for new loans.

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