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'Stick to the plan' says Osborne after slower growth stats

The UK economy grew by 0.3% during the first quarter of 2015, the Office for National Statistics said today. The pace of growth was half the 0.6% rate seen in the final quarter of 2014 and the weakest quarterly growth since the end of 2012.

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David Cameron: 'We can't take recovery for granted'

The Prime Minister has said that today's just-released GDP figures show that "our economy is still growing" and that "we can't take the recovery for granted".

Mr Cameron was responding to figures showing slower economic growth in the first quarter of 2015 than in the last three months of 2014.

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