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Cameron’s Conservatives would “abandon families who are worried about repossessions”

Margaret Beckett MP, Labour’s Housing Minister, commenting on the Conservative reaction to the Homeowners Mortgage Support Scheme, said:

“For millions of British people their biggest fear is that they might face repossession in this world downturn. That is why we are right to do everything in our power so that no hard working family who demonstrates a willingness to pay faces the fear of repossession of their family home.

“The Conservatives refuse to properly back these proposals, even though they have no plan of their own to take action for mortgage-holders. People will remember that this is a Party which only a year ago was officially considering scrapping every single existing protection for mortgage-holders.

“It’s clear that David Cameron’s Conservatives would rather abandon families who are worried about repossessions than take the tough, necessary action to keep people in their homes.”

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