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UK: Former chancellor Lord (Alistair) Darling warned "small rate rise could kill
spending" Sunday Times reported, after a "decade of rock-bottom interest rates
has left consumers vulnerable to a 'shock' from even a marginal increase in
borrowing costs" ... "with knock-on effects for the broader economy." Darling
also expressed the current chancellor, Phillip Hammond, has to "'manage Brexit
without tanking the economy' or risk Britain's sovereign credit rating coming
under attack from speculators."

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