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25 August 2011

The time for sneering is over

Naive politics will always have to deal with economic truths. And the latest data leaves Osborne, an

By David Blanchflower

I have to say, I am beginning to feel a bit sorry for our dear Chancellor, who has backed himself into a corner. He was so confident when he came into power that he was right. All that sneering about the Labour government having failed and that he was going to put us on the path to nirvana.

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