Overseas lenders are reducing their lending to UK firms. Meanwhile, the nationalisation of Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley means that the supply of credit in the mortgage market has also been reduced. UK banks need to lend more just to fill the hole left by the overseas and nationalised banks.
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