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The Osborne Effect: Growth halved in just 12 months

Today the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) released a report suggesting that George Osborne has managed to cut GDP growth in half over the course of 2011 – down to 1% from 2.1% in 2010. Let’s see howthat looks as a bar chart:

That’s the Osborne Effect…

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