UK Chancellor George Osborne's plans to consider the issue of ultra-long or perpetual bonds. PP looks at the precedents to any such move.
The UK itself has issued a number of perpetual gilts since the 19th century, the bulk of this debt being accounted for by the £1.9bn War Loan issued in 1917. But just three sovereign nations in rec...
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