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UK long-term borrowing costs hit highest level since 1998

Rising interest costs raise fears about chancellor’s ability to hit revised fiscal rules
Investors’ concerns over the outlook for the UK come amid a global sell-off in government bonds in recent months

The UK’s long-term borrowing costs have hit their highest level since 1998, as a bond sell-off threatens to wipe out the “headroom” chancellor Rachel Reeves has under her recently overhauled fiscal rules.

The yield on the 30-year gilt touched 5.25 per cent on Tuesday, pushing past a previous peak in October 2023 and eclipsing levels reached during the height of the market fallout from Liz Truss’s ill-fated “mini” Budget the previous year.

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