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UK government borrowing hits record due to pandemic

by Danica Kirka
| October 21, 2020 7:03 AM

LONDON (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic is battering Britain’s public finances, pushing government borrowing to a record last month as tax revenue fell and authorities spent billions of pounds to prop up the economy.

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