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Britain will spend £109 BILLION on debt interest this year.
That is more than:
- The entire Education budget
- The entire Defence budget
- Nearly 4× the Transport budget
- More than 5× the Home Office budget
- Nearly 8× the Justice budget
- Roughly half the Health and Social Care (NHS) budget
That is the equivalent of around £3,220 per working person per year, or £268 a month, just to service the national debt.
The debt is rising by roughly £4,000 to £4,300 every second.
At a time when people are already being squeezed by the cost of living, a huge amount of the tax they pay is being swallowed up by interest on old debt rather than paying for the services they actually use.
After all that, the £2.9 trillion debt is still there.
https://uknationaldebt.com/Snapshot of the live UK National Debt Clock taken at 7:12 am on 18 Aug 2026.
Published at
2026-08-18 09:14:30 CESTEvent JSON
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