Living standards key to UK election as data shows slowest recovery since 1920s
by Katie Allen and Nicholas Watt from Economics | The Guardian on (#64H2)
Tories welcome figures showing GDP growth revised to 0.6% but Labour says government has been complacent on grounds that people are still worse off
Living standards have been thrust to the centre of the general election campaign as official figures showed Britain is undergoing the slowest recovery since the 1920s and GDP per head still remains lower than levels before the recession.
Labour has accused the Conservatives of complacency on the grounds that people are still worse off after the Office for National Statistics showed GDP per head remains 1.2% below pre-economic downturn levels.
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