Debt passes £3 trillion. Who pays it down? | Jackdaw, net zero and the SAS investigations
UK national debt passed £3 trillion this week for the first time. A week before John Healey's first Budget, Benedict Spence joins Damian Pudner, Director of the Great British Think Tank, to ask whether anyone in government plans to pay any of it down, and why the deficit keeps growing.
They also cover the Jackdaw decision and what North Sea drilling means for energy bills and net zero, why there is no magic pot of money left to tax, the Great British Think Tank's £150bn a year of spending cuts, the coming argument over indefinite leave to remain, and the investigations into SAS soldiers…
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