Ex-Chancellor Lamont: Sustained low rates 'sole reason' for 2008 crisis

Natalie Kenway
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Lord Norman Lamont, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, has blamed the Bank of England's low interest rate policy in the mid-2000s as the "biggest single contributory factor" of the 2008 crisis.

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