UK public debt grew to the size of the entire British economy in the first eight months of the financial year, the highest level since the early 1960s, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
The figure surged by a whopping £301.6 billion ($403.8 billion) from April to November, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics on Tuesday. This brought the national public sector net debt to £2.0998 trillion (around $2.8 trillion) at the end of last month, or nearly 99.5 percent of GDP.
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