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Borrowing hit five-year high in August in fresh blow to public finances

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    26% Somewhat Right

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : In the March spring statement, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the UK's spending watchdog, had forecast government borrowing of £12.5 billion in August.
34% : Rachel Reeves has been dealt a tough blow before the November budget as official figures showed that government borrowing surged to a five-year high in August, increasing the chances of billions of pounds of tax rises.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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