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The outgoing governor of the Bank of England has warned that the Government's Help To Buy scheme should not become permanent. Sir Mervyn King said there "was no place in the long run" for the Chancellor's new scheme, which will guarantee up to 15% of a mortgage on homes worth up to £600,000. However Danny Alexander str...
Vulnerable families have been targeted by Labour-run South Lanarkshire council and threatened out of their homes because they can't pay Westminster's bedroom tax. ...
Amber Rudd predicted the International Monetary Fund would give a positive assessment of the UK’s economy when it publishes its ‘health-check’. “We’ve had a good ...
Lord McFall said Sir Mervyn King was right to raise concerns about the Government’s Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme being extended further. “I think he is r...
Mervyn King said the Government’s Help to Buy lending scheme “shouldn’t become a permanent feature of our financial landscape”. “I’m sure that there is no place i...
Labour press release Jack Dromey MP, Labour's Shadow Housing Minister, responding to the release of Government figures which show a 3 per cent drop in house build...
19/05/2013 on The Westminster Hour, BBC Radio 4
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13/05/2013 on Channel 4 News
12/05/2013 on Sunday Politics, BBC1
12/05/2013 on Sunday Politics, BBC1