The UK budget deficit widened in the first half of the fiscal year raising the possibility of the government overshooting the target in 2019-20, after a decade-long austerity.
During the April to September period, the budget deficit climbed 21.6 percent on a yearly basis to GBP 40.3 billion, data from the Office for National Statistics showed Tuesday.
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