A Labour MP has gone viral on social media after explaining UK debt with custard creams and bourbon biscuits.

Gordon McKee took to X on Tuesday ahead of the UK Budget announcement to explain the UK’s growing debt crisis, illustrated by piles of biscuits.

After just an hour online, the video had been viewed almost two million times.

“There’s a reason Britain feels broke, and it’s probably not what you think,” the 31-year-old Glasgow South MP said in the video.

As the chancellor urged Labour MPs to back her forthcoming Budget on Tuesday, McKee took to social media to explain that the UK’s financial problems come down to the nation’s debt-to-GDP ratio.

“It basically means how much debt the government has compared to how rich the country is,” McKee explained.

In 1994, he said the UK’s de

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