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Opinion: Vince for No.11 – for growth and investment

By Simon Holbrook | Mon 30th April 2012 - 11:54 am

Coming after several weeks of self-inflicted damage, the news that the UK economy has gone back into recession risks further undermining public confidence in the Government’s ability to deal with the problems the country faces.

Nick Clegg says the principles of the coalition’s economic strategy remain sound – repairing the public finances, reforming the financial system and rebalancing the economy – and I agree. The problem is that we are only making progress on the first one of these …

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