‘We’re kicking ourselves that we didn’t do a five-year mortgage fix in 2021’

Anguished families talk about how the Bank of England's 13th consecutive interest hike is affecting them - and their fears for the future

Liam, 36, a senior IT manager and married father-of-one from Newcastle upon Tyne, is one of millions of homeowners whose mortgage payments will rise even higher after the Bank of England on Thursday put up the base interest rate to 5% - a 15-year high.

Together with his husband, Liam bought his four-bedroom house in 2019 for 269k, and the couple's three-year mortgage deal, refixed at 1.64% in 2020 just before the first lockdown, expired in March.