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Benjamin Elks: Local Authority debt has doubled since 2009
Britain has a debt problem. I’m sure this won’t be news to anyone reading this, but it can’t be said enough. For anyone brave enough to take a look, the national debt now stands at more than £2.83 trillion according to the TPA’s debt clock. Run up by successive governments spending beyond their means, it now requires over £100 billion a year in interest payments. [...]