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Facts of the day

£7.5 billion - amount India is spending on new French-built fighter jets

£10 billion – size of latest shortfall in UK defence budget

126 – number of French-built fighter jets India will receive

0 – the number of aircraft able to fly from British aircraft carriers this side of 2019

£2.9 billion – UK aid to India between 2005 - 2009

£120 billion – the amount of extra money UK government will have to borrow this year

23 percent - India's external debt to GDP ratio

476 percent – UK’s external debt to GDP ratio

Discuss.

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