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Brown has ‘learnt nothing’ from crisis

By Alex Barker

Published: February 1 2009 22:39 | Last updated: February 1 2009 22:39

Gordon Brown was on Sunday night accused of having “learnt nothing” from the economic crisis after he defended unorthodox mortgage loans worth 125 per cent of the value of a home.

After he was pressed on whether he should “shoulder the blame” for lax lending practices, Mr Brown insisted “high percentage mortgages” were fine as long as interest rates were low.

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