
The UK economy contracted by 1.9 per cent in the first quarter of this year, much more sharply than economists expected. Norma Cohen, economics correspondent, puts this decline in historical context and discusses where this leaves the economic forecasts Chancellor Alistair Darling made in this week’s Budget.
Financial Times | April 24, 2009
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