Or at least flat to one decimal point, which is as many as the chancellor has previously had the temerity to mention. (He might, just, be able to say it has fallen as a share of GDP - but that, too, would depend on the number of decimal points, at which point things start to get a bit silly).

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You get the the itty-bitty number that looks like 0.000000001 but with tens of thousands of zeroes between the decimal and the 1.

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