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Brown promises more credit for Britons

March 14, 2009    Posted in: Debt News
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has claimed that the UK’s credit drought will begin to ease over the next few months, as banks start to relax their stringent lending criteria. Economic uncertainty has led Britain’s banking industry to tighten its lending policies over the past year, after the population’s increasing reliance on loans and credit cards – plus the ability of some homeowners to borrow up to six times their salary in order to purchase a property – led to a debt crisis throughout the country. However, in an interview with BBC Radio 4’s ‘You and Yours’ show, Mr Brown claimed that the government was working night and day to fix the current failures in the UK’s banking system. Large scale lending has been responsible for several banks to call upon government bailouts in order to survive, including recent agreements with RBS and Lloyds Banking Group. The Prime Minister claimed that these banks have a duty to start lending more money now that the taxpayer has shares in the institutions. RBS, Lloyds and Northern Rock are expected to guarantee that £40 billion in new credit will become available to Britons over the next few months. Gordon Brown also answered criticism from other political parties that he has failed to accept his role in the UK’s economic problems, stating:
“I take full responsibility for what happens but what I can’t say to people is that the cause of the crisis is something happened within Britain alone.”
Instead, Brown claimed the current financial crisis is a global issue, not one caused by the UK government letting inflation and interest get out of hand.
“This is something which happened right round the world. We can’t find a solution unless we know we have got to sort out the banking system right across the world,” the Prime Minister concluded.
March 14, 2009    Posted in: Debt News

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