UK borrowers are ramping up their mortgage debt to levels not seen since the financial crisis, putting them and possibly the larger banking system at risk if interest rates rise, the chairman of the Financial Services Authority has warned.
Lord Turner said that 28 per cent of new UK residential mortgages in 2010 were for amounts greater than 3.5 times the borrowers' income, a level not seen since 2007.
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