NATWEST’S multimillionaire chief was ridiculed by campaigners today for claiming that it was not “that difficult” to get on the property ladder.

Sir Howard Davies, who takes home over £750,000 a year as the bank’s chairman, lectured that prospective buyers must save and that “is the way it always used to be.”

His remarks followed the Halifax bank announcing that the average home had increased in value by £4,800 in 2023.