Is the UK Economy in Trouble? | Newsnight

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With UK borrowing costs the highest since 2008, how much trouble is chancellor Rachel Reeves and the UK economy in? Plus LA wildfires destroy huge swathes of the city. With Victoria Derbyshire.

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