Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak have commendably secured at least some help on rocketing mortgages

Loan rearranger

GIVEN their limited options Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt have commendably secured at least some help on rocketing mortgages.

Borrowers will be able to cut payments by switching to an interest-only loan or extending their repayment term.

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No homes will be repossessed for at least a year, by when rates will hopefully have fallen. Payment holidays are possible.

It is easy and natural to blame the Government for rate rises.

In reality they have been caused by Covid and war fuelling inflation — and by bungling Bank of England chief Andrew Bailey reacting far too late.

There is little the PM can do.

The Tories and Labour have rightly rejected wrong-headed calls for taxpayers to bail out mortgage-holders.

Nationalising individuals’ home loan losses would truly drive Britain off the cliff.

Sunak must stay strong, act where he can and pray the crisis passes.

Doctors, no

THE posturing leaders of the junior ­doctors’ union are threatening to steal Just Stop Oil’s crown as Britain’s most arrogant and unreasonable saboteurs.

The Corbynite militants’ walkouts are costing the NHS millions a day while harming the sick.

That cannot be what young medics truly want as they are led out on a new strike for five straight days.

The BMA hints it just might compromise on its initial pay demand.

That 35 per cent is blatantly unaffordable and excessive, while the insistence that any wage erosion since the 2008 financial crisis be reversed is wrong in principle.

Almost everyone’s pay suffered from the global crash, then austerity, Covid and war.

Why should history be rewritten to exempt BMA members alone?

The doctors’ co-leader is a pampered ex-public schoolboy aged 28.

He and his entitled chums need to sober up.

Sadly they look far keener on role-playing as little Arthur Scargills than working for the NHS they claim to revere.

WHO’s round?

IS it any wonder our political leaders are so taken with nanny-state meddling given the insane puritanical edicts spewing from the World Health Organisation?

Repeated studies show an occasional tipple can be good for you.

Not so, says WHO Europe Director Dr Hans Kluge, who has banned booze from the body’s meetings and reckons “any alcohol use is harmful . . . there is no safe level”.

Two years ago the WHO drafted a report urging the “prevention of drinking among women of childbearing age” — roughly 16 to 45.

Good luck with that.

How can an outfit so appallingly slow to wake up to Covid, a plague which killed millions, obsess over even minimal drinking which they cannot and should not stop?