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UK recovery will be feeble - Clarke

Updated on 25 October 2009

Source PA News

Britain's economic recovery will be "feeble and fragile" and whoever wins the next election will need a full Parliament to nurse it back to health, shadow business secretary Kenneth Clarke has predicted.

The former Chancellor's comments came after Gordon Brown pledged to return the economy to growth by the end of the year.

In a podcast message, the Prime Minister vowed to end the longest recession since records began.

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