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LONDON (Reuters) – As many as 1.08 million people in England could be borrowing from a loan shark, more than three times the government’s most recent estimate, according to a report by a think-tank published on Monday. The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), while noting the difficulties of measuring illegal borrowing, said its estimate was based on a poll of about 4,000 people and an analysis of evidence provided by 1,200 known victims. The last official report on illegal lending from the government in 2010 estimated the number of people borrowing from illegal lenders at 310,000 across the Unite…