This is not true. The debt will continue to rise in cash terms unless and until the Tories close the deficit.
Sajid’s wriggle is that they plan to have debt fall as a proportion of GDP as above, which he neglected to explain. The debt to GDP ratio has more than doubled since 2008 and has flatlined since Osborne. Sajid is not certain to hold that line as Boris plans a spending splurge…
Looks like abandoning the nuclear deterrent would be all but certain under a Labour-SNP coalition…
That sounded like a slip that revealed Cabinet disagreement on the likelihood of the government’s core objective being achieved. Guido has been told that the Gove-Hancock bet is about the size of the majority for the deal, not whether or not the UK leaves in 11 days…
