As Northern Rock’s £100bn of liabilities have already been taken onto the Government’s books, nationalisation does not change anything from an accounting point of view. However, it does mean that the dent to the Government’s balance sheet will last indefinitely, forcing the Chancellor to admit in next month’s Budget that he has broken one of the Government’s two fiscal rules.
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