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Roll back the state? No - we must roll back austerity
Despite what the government says, Britain is not on the road to recovery, writes KATY CLARK MP

The Chancellor of the Exchequer was recently heralding a 0.8 per cent increase in gross domestic product as a recovery.

Growth of any amount should not be attacked in the context of the longest recession since the Victorian era.

However growth of this level is pitiful, and no sign that the government's policies are working or that the country is on any road to prosperity.

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