Gordon McKee in the video.

A Labour MP has gone viral on social media after making a video in which he uses biscuits to explain the UK’s ballooning national debt.

Gordon McKee’s clip has so far been watched 1.5 million times on X and won praise for its humour and originality.

The Glasgow South MP uses towers of custard creams and chocolate bourbons to explain how deep in the red the government is.

Sitting at a table with a bookshelf behind him, McKee says: “There’s a reason Britain feels broke, and it’s probably not what you think. I’m going to explain, but first of all you need to understand one thing: it’s called debt-to-GDP ratio. It sounds boring, it kind of is boring, but it’s important.”

Holding a chocolate bourbon in one hand to represent the UK’s debt and a custard cream representing how rich the country is, the MP goes on: “When I was born in 1994 it was about 30%. In other words, for every pound the country made the government owed 30p in debt, and it stayed that way until around 2008, when the banks ran out of money and we had to bail them out.

“So the debt then jumps to around 60%. Over the next 10 years of Tory government, it rises to about 80%. Then some guy eats a bat in Wuhan and now nobody can go to work, so the government has to borrow even more money. And today, Britain’s debt-to-GDP ration is about 100%.

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