The UK paid its highest borrowing rate on record yesterday, selling £4.25 billion of 30-year gilts at 5.82 per cent. The steepest yield at any sale since the Debt Management Office was set up in 1998, but don’t worry about that…
According to the Times, Deutsche Bank told clients the headroom is likely to be nearly halved. Debt interest is forecast to stay above £100 billion a year into the 2030s. It’s going to be a spooky Budget…
Former Treasury minister and adviser to Burnham in the Makerfield campaign Lord Jim O’Neill, who has turned down a role in his government, said Burnham’s first statement Commons was:
“The last thing investors wanted to hear… gilt yields have risen by a 0.25% in one day, which is a lot. We’ve not had that since Liz Truss days… If your country is under the focus of ‘can they come up with a sensible fiscal strategy’ on a day when the markets think ‘well no, you’re not showing any sign of it’ you’re going to have a tough day…if it stays like this your mortgage rate is going up.”