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Old 14-05-2010, 14:14   #334
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Re: [Update] The Liberal-Conservative Coalition

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Does this help? Guardian
And if you click on the link for "Britain's public debt since 1974", you get this , which shows the steady growth in the amount of UK public debt, and in 2007/08 it was 618.7 billion, up from 399.9 billion in 1996/97.
Yes, debt has gone up since '97 (disregarding the crisis now), but it actually decreased as a % of GDP, which would presumably be the most appropriate number to look at.
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