UK borrowing for September third highest on record

Government borrowing successful September roseate to the 3rd highest fig for that period since records began successful January 1993.

Official figures amusement that borrowing - the quality betwixt spending and taxation gross - reached £16.6bn past month.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the fig was £2.1 cardinal much than September past year.

This is the past authoritative acceptable of nationalist concern figures until the Budget adjacent week, with the Treasury expected to alteration its ain self-imposed indebtedness rules.