Public Finances (Dec.)

December’s public finance figures showed that government borrowing is still coming in comfortably below last year’s totals. But with tomorrow’s GDP figures possibly set to show that the economy is already back in recession, borrowing is likely to be much harder to bring down in the coming months.

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