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Rishi Sunak is caught in a debt trap

21 July 2023

8:32 PM

21 July 2023

8:32 PM

Two by-election defeats have made it a miserable morning for the Tories, even if they did manage to cling on in Uxbridge. But they’ve had better-than-expected news on another front. This morning’s update from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals that public sector net borrowing has come in lower than what was forecast at the March Budget: £18.5

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