Is Britain's debt really like Greece's?
by Phillip Inman from on (#DQ7Z)
The chancellor compared the UK's economy with that of Greece in his budget speech. Does George Osborne's claim stand up or was it just political rhetoric?
Greece has featured several times in George Osborne's narrative about the UK's public finances. He likened Britain's rising debt levels to those of Greece in his 2010 budget and repeated the same warning in his latest budget speech.
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