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Debt, deficit and UK economic figures

Former Prime Minister David Cameron and his former Chancellor George Osborne hailed the news that the UK had finally eliminated its deficit on day-to-day spending.

Austerity, they tweeted, was "the right thing to do". But what about the debt?

Daily Politics reporter Ellie Price explains some of the key statistics when looking at the state of the nation's finances.

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