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

After the ONS released slower-than-expected figures on Britain's economic growth, George Osborne has insisted that the "future of the economy is on the ballot paper".

Figures show that the economy grew by 0.3% in the first quarter of 2015 - half as much as the 0.6% it grew between October and December 2014

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