Sentences with phrase «british government debt»

As head of the UK Debt Management Office, it is his responsibility to find financial institutions prepared to take the risk for the record - breaking amounts of British government debt flooding the market.

This is a huge vote of confidence in the credibility of British Government debt and a major source of stability for the British economy at a time of exceptional instability.

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These political limits meant that lenders could trust the crown to repay its debts, making it much easier for the British government to raise money cheaply and efficiently.

And even those who would regard all such concepts as mythical (cosmopolitans or libertarians who do not think that their passport or citizenship involves any social membership) would probably still acknowledge that existing institutions - the British government, the Monarchy, Parliament, Barclays Bank, Everton Football Club, etc - are inheritors not just of their history (good and bad) but indeed of the material consequences of that (eg assets belonging to the state, or the Royal family, or a business; or indeed debts).

Writing in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, he argued the emphasis on the crisis of debt having a «strong hold over government policy» was no accident - and warned Labour needs to do more to combat it.

59 % of people agreed that Labour had «seriously lost touch with ordinary working people» (including 30 % of Labour's own supporters), 70 % that «Labour need to make major changes to their policies and beliefs to be fit for government again» (including 50 % of Labour voters), 61 % agreed that «Labour still haven't faced up to the damage they did to the British economy» and 50 % agreed that «If Labour returned to government they would put the country into even more debt».

Equally remarkably, when Harold Macmillan as new prime minister in July 1957 told the British people that they had «never had it so good», the size of the government debt at that time was 120 % of GDP, far far higher than the debt ratio of about 70 % in 2010 when Gordon Brown was accused of mortgaging Britain's future by profligacy.

The UKFC, which was established to develop and promote British cinema, has fallen victim to massive spending cuts as the country's new government attempts to curb spiralling debt.

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In his book «Between Debt and the Devil,» which advocates helicopter money, the British economist Adair Turner cites Pennsylvania in the early 1700s, the U.S. Union government in the 1860s and Japan in the early 1930s as examples of governments that used monetary finance without triggering hyperinflation.