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Opinion: It’s the economy stupid

The announcement on Friday that the UK economy contracted again in the last quarter of 2012 offers a damaging blow to the Government, and our leadership in particular, who have rightly and continually reaffirmed during this parliament that generating economic growth is by far their greatest priority.

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Clegg’s economic gear shift must be driven by Plan C

With the UK’s double-dip recession biting harder than previously thought, growing unease at the economy’s failure to recover appears to have elicited something of a change of emphasis at the heart of government. If Nick Clegg’s Financial Times interview (£) signifies a genuine change of direction in economic policy, and it would be welcome if so, we should ask in which direction we’re now facing. The Social Liberal Forum recently published Plan C, our approach to achieving a fair, sustainable economy, so it pays to benchmark Clegg’s call to “shift up a gear” against the values

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    I don't want to be down on this, but you have perhaps inadvertently just shown up one of the problems with the mantra of, 'stronger...
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    "I think it will take a ‘wrong’ GE result for electoral reform to be a serious option again. Our equivalent of Bush vs Gove. "...
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    This is an excellent proposal. The UK continues to be a world-class centre for innovation and basic research. The returns that would accrue from a...
  • User AvatarEddie Sammon 24th May - 7:17pm
    Interesting Catherine, I don't know much about the separating church from state proposals but they sound similar. Amalric, ahh now it makes sense. Thanks
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    Richard, I think your point about civil marriages being nothing to do with religion is a good one. I don't know much about this so...
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