The UK government borrowed less than expected in the first seven months of the financial year as Jeremy Hunt puts the last-minute touches to a series of potential pre-election giveaways in his autumn statement on Wednesday.
Public sector borrowing between April and October was just above £98bn, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), and while this was £22bn…

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