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Did the eurozone crisis cause the double-dip recession?
The UK is officially back in recession. Is the coalition's economic strategy to blame, or the eurozone crisis? Polly Curtis, with your help, finds out. Get in touch below the line, tweet @pollycurtis...
View ArticleGraphic GDP: How does this recession compare?
Graphic: Britain has slipped back into recession. But is it really worse than the 1930s?Simon Rogers
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Double-dip recession a terrible blow for George Osborne
UK government stands accused of over-cooking austerity and killing off tentative recovery that was under way two years agoIt's official. Britain has had two successive quarters of negative growth and...
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UK double-dip recession: what the economists say
One analyst voiced fears about 'misleading' data, while another concluded that 'the light at the end of the tunnel was a train'The UK economy has slid back into recession, its first double dip since...
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UK sinks into double-dip recession
UK GDP shrank 0.2% in the first three months of 2012, sending Britain into its first double-dip since the 1970sBritain has sunk back into recession, its first double-dip downturn since the 1970s,...
View ArticlePrime minister's questions: 25 April 2012 - audio
David Cameron takes questions from Labour leader Ed Miliband and other MPs at the weekly event in the House of Commons
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David Cameron accused of idiocy over austerity mantra
Business Insider writer Joe Weisenthal accused Cameron of sounding like a moron when he said Britain's low interest rates demonstrate it has credibilityCalling David Cameron a moron is a talking point....
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Double-dip recession: what should George Osborne do?
Options include abandoning cuts altogether, easing up on austerity, carrying on regardless, and cutting even fasterAbandon the cuts and go for growthThat was the suggestion from the left-of-centre...
View ArticleUK economy slips back into recession – video
The British economy shrank for the second quarter in a row, leading to clashes in the Commons between David Cameron and the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, over the country's first double-dip recession...
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UK recession case studies - how three firms are weathering the storm
Amtico, Polypipe and Future Life talk about trading conditions in the UK following news that the economy is back in recessionAmticoDespite today's return to recession, it's not all doom and gloom for...
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Double-dip recession affords George Osborne no escape from this reality
The chancellor enshrined austerity to keep financial markets on side but now even they are getting jittery – the UK economy is a disaster areaIs this the real life? Is this just fantasy? You had to go...
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Double-dip recession: fall in financial services output confounds economists
Financial and business services firms in City of London had been expected to expand to stave off return to recessionThe surprise fall in output at financial and business services firms in the City of...
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Double-dip recession figures mark another bad day for George Osborne
After five weeks of turmoil since the budget, chancellor faces criticism that his policies have plunged UK back into recessionThe government's five weeks of turmoil since George Osborne's badly...
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George Osborne, the kamikaze chancellor | Will Hutton
Osborne has such a primitive view of what makes capitalism tick. This double-dip slump is made in BritainHistory will be unforgiving about George Osborne's chancellorship. The British economy in May...
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The recession: George Osborne's double dip | Editorial
This event will surely become part of the shorthand used when summing up this government's wrong-headednessHere is the startling thing about yesterday's news that Britain has gone back into recession:...
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A blast from the pasty makers: bakers cook up Downing Street tax protest
Hundreds to attend demonstration partly organised by Greggs chain over George Osborne's VAT change 'pasty tax'Hundreds of bakers will protest outside Downing Street on Thursday during a day of action...
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To the left: a likely new direction for France and Germany | John Palmer
If a new austerity-sceptic alliance emerges across the Channel, will Cameron and Osborne end up as Europe's last deflationists?Quite suddenly, there is talk of change in the eurozone's economic...
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Hollande's way through the double-dip and Dutch debacle
The disappointing economic news showed the risks of austerity. But the French Socialist holds the promise of an alternativeIn a television studio at dawn someone remarked "most people aren't as...
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Bitter arguments rage over a double-dip recession – it must be 1975 | Lauren...
The Guardian called it the inevitable budget, as Denis Healey put taxes up and imposed pay restraint• From the Archive blog – read moreThe latest set of growth figures released this week shows Britain...
View ArticlePolitics Weekly podcast: Jeremy Hunt clings to office amid allegations of...
The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, was facing calls to resign this week after evidence uncovered in the Leveson inquiry appeared to show a "back channel" operating improperly between his department...
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