‘With the economy rising 1% in the three months to September, the years of austerity are over’, said chancellor George Osborne to a cheering crowd, from an upstairs window at number 11 Downing Street. ‘Let the celebrations begin!’ Londoners needed no further excuse to go on the kind of spree that the capital hasn’t witnessed since VE Day.
Posted: Oct 27th, 2012
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Posted: Oct 17th, 2012
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Posted: May 31st, 2012
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Posted: May 9th, 2012
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