George Osborne: Labour score spectacular own goal on cuts

George Osborne: Building a sustainable recovery

Today, after a year and a half of negative growth, Britain finally left recession.

While any recovery is good news, these very weak figures show that Gordon Brown’s promise that Britain “would lead the world out of recession” turned out to be a cruel deceit – we were one of the first major economies to enter recession and the last in the G20 to leave it.

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Morgan Stanley: Hung Parliament in UK could result in economy suffering 'major fiscal crisis'

Morgan Stanley: UK could be first big economy to suffer 'major fiscal crisis'