Mortgage prisoners  

Govt must ‘cease the mortgage prisoner cycle’

Meanwhile, another prisoner stated: “For years I felt isolated, thinking I was to blame for this situation, that my decisions, my spending choices caused this.

“It is so wrong the things I have had to say no to my children to, no to going here or there, no to joining the club they wanted to go to while growing up.

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“The overtime that we both had to work to keep a roof over our children’s head, this is time that I cannot have back with them.”

SNP MP, Martin Docherty-Hughes, who led the briefing, estimated there are around 40,000 mortgage prisoners in Scotland alone.

tom.dunstan@ft.com

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