This summer will go down in history as the first time ever that Britain’s national debt topped £3trillion. It’s a mind-boggling number, almost impossible to comprehend. So let me help you grasp the scale of it.
It’s the equivalent of about £43,000 for every man, woman and child in the UK. Or about £105,000 for every household in the land.
If it was denominated in £1 notes and you had to count them, it would take you 95,000 years at the rate of one a second. If it was stacked in £50 notes, the cash column would soar over 3,300 miles into
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