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.



More from LabourList
‘The government needs a different approach to Great British Railways’
‘Talent is spread evenly across Scotland. Opportunity still isn’t’
PM says ‘deliberate decision’ taken not to inform him of Mandelson’s failed vetting