Osborne says Brexit would push higher mortgage costs

Chancellor George Osborne said the country's home-owners could face higher borrowing costs if voters decide to leave the European Union in a referendum in June, building on his warnings against a so-called Brexit. "The Bank of England is independent and it makes its decisions on interest rates," Osborne told BBC television in Washington where he is attending a half-yearly meeting of global finance officials at the International Monetary Fund. "But the overwhelming view of the experts here in Was