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» Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Economic Growth

Put to him that the UK economy was growing at its slowest rate since 1992, the PMOS referred journalists to the Treasury for their detailed rebuttal of that. He was sure they would point out the UK’s pre-eminence in terms of maintaining growth over a sustained period. Asked how much growth would have to diminish before the Prime Minister started taking an interest, the PMOS said that the Prime Minister took a very strong interest but someone simply insulting the Prime Minister would not tempt him into pre-empting the Treasury’s response.

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A bit touchy today aren’t we PMOS? You’ve got to learn to ride with the punches you know.

It’s a perfectly sensible question, and if the PM takes it as an insult then he’s even more damn stupid than we could ever have imagined.

So we’ll have to wait for Treasury to get its political act together before making any further comment? Absolutely crass….
Comment by Chuck Unsworth — 26 Jan 2006 on 12:59 pm | Link

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