GDP figures from Q2 have now been revised, so that the economy only shrank by 0.4%, rather than the 0.7% originally recorded.
Still worth bearing in mind though, that this is the amount of growth there has been in the UK economy since Osborne’s Spending Review:
In total Osborne has been in charge of economy for 8 quarters. The economy has shrunk in 5 of them.
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