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UK's Sunak says honesty needed over 'extraordinary' borrowing

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Reuters
03 March, 2021, 05:30 pm
Last modified: 03 March, 2021, 05:30 pm

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UK's Sunak says honesty needed over 'extraordinary' borrowing

Sunak spoke with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other ministers on Wednesday ahead of his budget statement to parliament

Reuters
03 March, 2021, 05:30 pm
Last modified: 03 March, 2021, 05:30 pm
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak speaks during a virtual news conference, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in London, Britain September 24, 2020. Photo :Reuters
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak speaks during a virtual news conference, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in London, Britain September 24, 2020. Photo :Reuters

British finance minister Rishi Sunak has told other government ministers that the country needs to face up to the very high borrowing that has been needed during the Covid pandemic, a spokesman for the prime minister said.

Sunak spoke with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other ministers on Wednesday ahead of his budget statement to parliament, due around 1230 GMT.

"The Chancellor said we must be honest with ourselves and the country about what that has meant. We are borrowing on an extraordinary scale - equivalent only to wartime levels," a spokesman for Johnson said.

"He said that, as a Conservative Government, we know that we cannot ignore this problem and it wouldn't be right or responsible to do so," the spokesman added. 

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