George Osborne is on course to miss this year's Government borrowing targets despite the Coalition recording the biggest surplus on its public finances for five years, experts have warned.
The Chancellor suffered a £5.1 billion black hole after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said not all of the funds transferred from the Bank of England's economy-boosting programme were allowed to go to government coffers.
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