GDP Growth over the past 12 months:
Figures can be found here – incidentally, the more countries you add in, the worse it looks. Only Greece, Portugal and Cyprus are growing slower than the UK.
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Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015.
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