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Consumer recovery not dependent on PPI payments

The former Chancellor, Alistair Darling, recently suggested that PPI payments may be behind the strength of the consumer recovery. But the reality is that they have only provided a meagre boost to households’ incomes over recent years and are unlikely to cause the recovery to slow once they cease.


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