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State debt is rising at £5,170 a second
Osborne era has now added £600 billion to the red column

 

BRITAIN’S national debt is rising at a rate of more than £5,000 a second thanks to Chancellor George Osborne’s failed economic agenda, incompetence and his refusal to regulate banks and financial institutions, economists said yesterday.

 

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