As the cost of borrowing rises again, we speak to some of the 1.4m people on variable rates dreading the effects
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“It’s a bloodbath, that’s the way I’d like to describe it,” says John*, a father of two struggling with the ever-increasing interest rate on his home loan.
He is one of the 1.4 million people in the UK on a variable rate residential mortgage, who have watched the monthly payments soar after the Bank of England raised the base rate to a 15-year high.
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