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Updating the nation on our national debt. A project from @the_tpa
Joined February 2013
Wise words from our youngest prime minister, William Pitt the Younger, who managed to reduce the national debt in his time by 30%. If only our leaders today cared about the debt as much as he did.
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It's officially one week until the budget. Britain's national debt goes up by almost £3bn every week.
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Britain's top ten taxpayers contributed £2.72bn in 2024. Britain's national debt goes up by £2.72bn every 6 days, 8 hours and 24 minutes.
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Reform UK's proposed savings = £32.1bn Britain's national debt goes up by £32.1bn every 2 months, 14 days, 56 minutes and 8 seconds.
How to put British people first: 1. End Universal Credit for foreign nationals – save £8 billion 2. End foreign aid for cycle lanes in Mexico and family planning in Pakistan -save £10 billion 3. Increase the Immigration Health Surcharge – raise £5 billion 4. Stop British
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Reconsidering 1.4 million asylum cases will cost the Home Office £872 million over the next ten years. Britain's national debt goes up by £872m every 2 days and 47 mins.
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It's 9 days until the budget. By that time, the national debt would have increased by £3,857,558,400.
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Britain's national debt goes up by £7.5bn every 2 weeks and 3 days.
🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves has ruled out lowering income tax thresholds but will extend the freeze for another 2 years The move is set to raise £7.5bn by dragging more people into higher tax [@BloombergUK]
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Britain's national debt goes up by £2bn every 4 days and 16 hours.
🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves has abandoned plans for a £2bn tax raid on lawyers, doctors and accountants [@thetimes]
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Britain's national debt goes up by £20m every 1 hour and 7 minutes.
Britain's tax code is one of the longest and most complicated in the whole world, and our tax collector HMRC is not very good either 😵💫 So why are we giving £20m to Ethiopia to improve their tax system!? 😠 https://t.co/NYkxrzKRRY
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Potential savings = £1bn Britian's national debt increases by £1bn every 2 days and 8 hours.
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Britain's national debt goes up by £89,000 every 18 seconds.
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Compensation of the Waspi women could cost upwards of £10.5bn. Britain's national debt goes up £10.5bn every 24 and a half days.
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The abolition of the two-child benefit cap is estimated to cost £3.6bn. The national debt goes up by £3.6bn every 8 days and 10 hours.
Keir Starmer has all but confirmed the two-child benefit cap will be fully abolished in budget. PM told @ITV doctor Amir Khan: "I can look you in the eye and tell you I’m personally committed to driving down child poverty." When asked again if he would get rid of cap, he
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$1bn = £761,785,000. Britain’s national debt rises by the amount Trump is threatening to sue the BBC for every 42 hours and 40 minutes.
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Britain's national debt goes up by £19m every 1 hour and 4 minutes.
New @the_tpa investigation has found that the Foreign Office is going to send £19million to Pakistan to tackle child sex abuse, all the while suspects of Asian and Pakistani heritage men are overrepresented in child abuse cases in Britain. Cancel this scheme immediately.
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The annual remuneration of both Davie and Turness (as of July 2025) was £970,000. The national debt goes up by £970,000 every 3 minutes and 16 seconds.
🚨 BREAKING: BBC Director General Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness has resigned over the Trump documentary edit in 2021
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