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To invent a new market was only a matter of finding a new asset to hock.

However, he prompted a backlash from some Labour MPs after he suggested ministers were "in hock to the bond markets" - a reference to the government's self-imposed rules limiting spending and borrowing.

The mayor has proposed raising taxes for higher earners and increasing borrowing to build council houses as he called for the government to "get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets".

In the New Statesman, he said: "We've got to get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets".

Ozzy and Sharon allowed the cameras to roll as they hurled a ham hock into a neighbor’s yard and a log through his window.