Exhibit A: Yvette Cooper urges the banks to pass the interest rate cut on to borrowers.
Exhibit B: The state-owned Northern Rock withdraws tracker mortgages – which follow the movements of the base rate – to avoid passing rate cuts on to new borrowers.
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