Osborne under triple-dip pressure

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George Osborne
George Osborne

George Osborne is under pressure to do more to jump start the ailing economy after another set of negative growth figures put the UK on course for an unprecedented triple-dip recession.

The Chancellor George Osborne vowed not to "run away" from Britain's economic woes after the first official estimate suggested the economy shrank by an even-worse-than-expected 0.3% in the final quarter of 2012.

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