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"There will often still be maximum age limits at the end of the mortgage term and lenders will need to be sure that the borrowing will be affordable," he said.

Badenoch also challenged the prime minister to repeat a pledge from Chancellor Rachel Reeves not to make further increases to taxes or borrowing after the Budget.

It’s the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge and one of the last big data releases of the year that the central bank will consider as it ponders when to lower borrowing costs further.

By borrowing the idea of directed evolution, a technique used in both chemistry and biology that mimics the process of natural selection, the researchers combined precision with rapid output to achieve their ideal lipid "recipe."

Earlier this week, data showed higher-than-expected government borrowing, while the latest inflation figures showed prices rising faster than expected.