Labour: 'Osborne risks long-term damage to our economy'

This is a damning indictment of a Chancellor who promised to secure the recovery and get the deficit down.

His failed plan has delivered the exact opposite - a double dip recession which is leading to soaring borrowing. What more evidence does the Government need that their plan has failed and they need to change course?

George Osborne’s decision to raise taxes and cut spending too far and too fast has choked off the recovery and as a result the Government’s pledge to balance the books by 2015 is now in tatters.

Unless the Chancellor takes urgent action now he will end up not only borrowing billions more to pay for economic failure but he risks causing long-term damage to our economy too.