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Election 2014 fact-checker: Labour's 'worse than Muldoon' debt claim

Rob Hosking
Wed, 12 Mar 2014

Fresh from being a bit too cute over energy price rises, the Labour Party is now running the line that current government debt is worse than under Sir Robert Muldoon.

The claim is made, in posters and on social media, that the current government has hiked public debt more than any previous

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Rob Hosking
Wed, 12 Mar 2014
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