RE: Grim. Labour nowhere near on target to build 1.5m new homes11 Sep 2025 11:09
Hi
I make no political point but for clarity the UK bank rate affecting mortgages has been far, far higher in the past half a century. I know. I have had various mortgages in previous decades.
For clarity the UK bank rate in late 1979/80 was 17%.
The bank rate in 2023 reached 5.25%.
The UK bank rate is currently 4%
The average bank rate over the 50 year period has been 9.1%
The rate at which the UK can borrow money on 10 or 30 year gilts has varied from over 16% to 0.1% during COVID.
So it took has been far, far higher than where it currently sits.
The pressure of the extra spending created by COVID the extra costs of Brexit, Trump's tariffs policy, the extra spending still weighing from the 2008 banking crisis plus the war in Ukraine all combine along with a lack of productivity to make all recent government's desperately short of cash.