Record borrowing but debt sustainability a distant concern for UK
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Record borrowing but debt sustainability a distant concern for UK

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UK government borrowing is rocketing, with the country intending to borrow £485.5bn in its 2020/21 financial year. This has already pushed up its debt to GDP ratio over 100%, but the announcement of next quarter’s £92bn remit caused scarcely a ripple in the Gilts market on Wednesday. Market participants believe that any problems of debt sustainability or spiralling inflation are too distant a prospect to trouble them, writes Lewis McLellan.

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