UK debt reaches record high as goverment borrowing hits £19.1bn
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Coronavirus has caused one of the largest economic shocks this country has ever faced,’ chancellor says.
By Samuel Osborne
The UK’s debt has reached a new high as government borrowing hit £19.1bn last month as it continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic and the economic fallout of lockdown.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the public sector had borrowed more last month than during any other February since records began in 1993.
The debt owed by public bodies has increased by ...
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