Brown binge 'means each UK child will owe £17,000'

EVERY child born in Britain will owe £17,000 because of Gordon Brown's "morally repugnant" borrowing, Tory leader David Cameron claimed today.

He was launching a hard-hitting poster campaign accusing the Prime Minister of saddling future generations with debts caused by high spending.

Some 270 posters will be put up across the country featuring a new-born baby, with the caption: "Mum's eyes. Dad's nose. Gordon Brown's debt."

State debt is due to rise above a trillion pounds in the next five years, according to official figures. Borrowing by the Government has soared during the economic crisis and is due to rise this year by £118 billion.

Unveiling the campaign, Mr Cameron was planning to claim that he could not, as a father, agree to so much debt being heaped on future generations.

"I'm a dad first and foremost and everything I do is about making sure my children have a better life," he will say. "And what guides me in my personal life guides me in my public life."

He will go on: "That's why I'm so adamant we must stop this Government from borrowing so much money.

"Every child born in Britain this year will be staggering along under Gordon Brown's debt - £17,000 each to be precise - which will take them over 40 years to pay off. I believe there is something morally repugnant about this Labour Government sacrificing tomorrow for the political convenience of today."

Mr Cameron will claim that for the first time in generations, parents are "looking at their children and questioning if they will have a better life than they themselves had".

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