The real reason Rishi Sunak held his disastrous snap election
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Hundreds of thousands of homeowners would have been forced to pay an average of £240 more a month in mortgage bills
Hundreds of thousands of homeowners would have been forced to pay an average of £240 more a month in mortgage bills