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Leader or laggard? (Q1 2010)

A mood of doom and gloom has descended regarding the UK economy. The fact that the UK has been much slower to exit recession than other economies has raised concerns that its previous economic success was just an illusion and that the recent crisis has laid bare an underlying structural weakness.

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