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Letters: We’re all still paying for the financial crash

26 March 2022

9:00 AM

26 March 2022

9:00 AM

Don’t blame the banks?

Sir: Kate Andrews struggles to disentangle the causes of the developing cost-of-living crisis (‘Cold truth’, 19 March), with the fallout from Brexit, Covid and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine all vying for responsibility. She forgets the financial crash of 2008, when a few irresponsible banks and building societies dragged this country into a financial abyss.

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