Labour candidates Naz Sarkar and Anneliese Dodds today welcomed news that the UK is officially out of recession, but warned against the Tory threat to withdraw government support while the economy is still recovering.
"Bluntly," says Naz Sarkar, "the figures show that Labour's policy is working. Published by the independent Office of National Statistics this morning, they show that the UK economy has begun growing again, with GDP growth estimated at 0.1% for the last quarter of 2009, as Alistair Darling forecast. And employment and youth unemployment are falling too.
"The Centre for Cities report said Reading was well-placed to weather the recession, and while there is no room for complacency I think in Reading people can already feel the difference. Our plans are on track, but, as experts at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have warned, the Tory plans to cut and cut again would throw that recovery into reverse.
Anneliese Dodds added: "For the last eighteen months George Osborne nationally and Reading Tories locally have done nothing but rubbish what Labour has done, without coming up with a single proposal of their own. They have served their country, and their Party, badly and do not deserve to be returned to Parliament when the election comes."
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