Labour's borrowing costs surge 'worse than Liz Truss chaos': Rachel Reeves faces spending crisis after interest rates hit 27-year high on fears of 'Stagflation'
Daily MailRachel Reeves has been warned that the spike in UK borrowing costs is worse than the crisis that ended Liz Truss's premiership. The interest rate on 30-year gilts - the government's long-term financing vehicle - approached 5.25 per cent yesterday, the highest level for 27 years. Rachel Reeves has been warned that the spike in UK borrowing costs is worse than the crisis that ended Liz Truss 's premiership The interest rate on 30-year gilts - the government's long-term financing vehicle - approached 5.25 per cent yesterday, the highest level for 27 years Sunaina Sinha Haldea of financial services firm Ramond James told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme there were concerns that inflation was 'sticky' even as growth stalls - known as 'Stagflation'. 'It's interesting to note that these interest rate costs if we sustain them at the nearly 5.25 per cent it hit on Tuesday it erases the room for extra borrowing that he Chancellor and this government would like to set in its own Budget rules and it needs to do in order to enact its own growth plans.