$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.

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.

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.

Britain's national debt goes up by £89,000 every 18 seconds.

Potential savings = £1bn Britian's national debt increases by £1bn every 2 days and 8 hours.

Britain's national debt goes up by £20m every 1 hour and 7 minutes.

Britain's national debt goes up by £2bn every 4 days and 16 hours.

Britain's national debt goes up by £7.5bn every 2 weeks and 3 days.

It's 9 days until the budget. By that time, the national debt would have increased by £3,857,558,400.

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.

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.

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.

It's officially one week until the budget. Britain's national debt goes up by almost £3bn every week.

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.

Whatever happens in the budget, Britain’s debt is still going to tick up. And the most brutal truth is this: our national debt is now harder to deal with than ever. Britain’s debt crisis is far worse than most people realise. Here’s what we TaxPayers' Alliance found:

Britain's national debt goes up by £550 every 0.11 seconds.

The reported 'Mansion Tax' is estimated to raise upwards of £450 million a year. Britain's national debt goes up by £450 million every 1 day, 1 hour, 12 minutes, and 45 seconds.

How can Starmer say they're cutting the national debt when in the financial year to October, borrowing was £116.8bn, which was £9bn more than the same period in 2024 and was the second-highest borrowing for April to October since records began in 1993? Borrow. Spend. Repeat.

Debt interest is set to rise from £110.4bn in 2025-26 to £123.6bn in 2030-31 in real terms. In cash terms its set to rise from £113.7bn this year to £140.4bn in 2030-31. Rachel Reeves said she was dealing with the debt and debt interest today, the numbers however don't lie 📈

The chancellor claims she's meeting her fiscal rule on debt because public sector net financial liabilities are forecast to be slightly lower as a % of GDP in 2029-30. But that's only a thin slice of the story. And it's masking a much darker reality for taxpayers 🧵