The UK does not have national debt of £1.8 trillion. It’s less than £1.4 trillion, as their own accounts show. So might journalists stop repeating the government’s lies on this, please?

The Guardian, in an ineffectual review of Tory claims about Labour spending plans, shows its ignorance of UK government accounts by claiming: A danger for both Labour and Conservatives is that pushing up borrowing could lead to higher interest payments on government debts. Britain pays about £40bn a year to service a debt pile of […]

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