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By Stefan Boscia Sir Keir Starmer has warned about potential housing price “shocks” across the UK in the wake of dramatic mortgage rate rises. The Labour leader today told City A.M. there’s “no market confidence” in the government and that “we are going to see these shocks in mortgages and housing as a direct result of it”. Starmer met with a series of business leaders and mortgage brokers in the Midlands today to discuss the reaction to the mini-Budget unveiled by chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng two weeks ago. Mortgage rates have soared after yields on government bonds spiked post-Budget, leading t…