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End of cheap loans? Court leave bank customers' fate in hands of MPs

Borrowers are staring at a return to expensive loans after a court nullified a law setting bank interest rate caps.

The High Court has declared the law capping interest rates as unconstitutional - a development that will be welcomed by commercial banks that have fought the controls.

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