Hunt has just claimed in the BBC that because inflation will be gone by end 2023 the mortgage cost crisis will be over, but the OBR is forecasting bank base rates of 4% or more to 2027 meaning mortgage rates will exceed 5% until then. He really should tell the truth.
@RichardJMurphy How can he say Inflation will be over when he's doing nothing to address the problems that cause it?
@RichardJMurphy and he obviously doesn’t grasp the concept of fixed rate mortgages…as hundreds of thousands are coming to the end of their current low rate agreements…and face massive increases

@RichardJMurphy

Hunt's perpetual future forecasts demonstrate his reliance on Osbourne

Osborne ALWAYS announced measures in hid budgets that weren't going to be brought in until years later

Jam tommorow

@RichardJMurphy I think the problem is that the government are trying to confuse the electorate. As has been said further down the thread, of course inflation will be much lower in 2023 when measured against this year’s spike. However, they hope that the man on the Clapham Omnibus hear this as “prices will start going down” rather than already high prices in 2022 won’t go up quite as fast. All semantics.