{"id":50956,"date":"2023-10-12T11:03:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T11:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=50956"},"modified":"2023-10-12T11:03:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T11:03:15","slug":"110bn-a-year-thats-what-the-uk-borrows-just-to-pay-the-interest-on-its-debts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/12\/110bn-a-year-thats-what-the-uk-borrows-just-to-pay-the-interest-on-its-debts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a3110bn a year! That&#8217;s what the UK borrows just to pay the interest on its debts"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50957\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ONS-300x197.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ONS-300x197.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ONS.jpeg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">T<\/span>he UK&#8217;s national debt now stands at \u00a32.59trillion, which is 98.8 percent of our gross domestic product. In other words, it&#8217;s the size of our entire annual economy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/uk-in-debt-spiral-as-it-borrows-100bn-a-year-just-to-pay-interest-on-its-borrowings\/ar-AA1i5Ghm?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=f64ec3f558674f4095fe31655ee958ee&amp;ei=74\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The UK&#8217;s national debt now stands at \u00a32.59trillion, which is 98.8 percent of our gross domestic product. In other words, it&#8217;s the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ONS.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50958,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50956\/revisions\/50958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}