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Chris Giles is the Economics Editor of the Financial Times. Before that he was a leader writer.
He reports on international and UK economics and writes a fortnightly column on the UK economy.
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Osborne is too timid, not too austere
The view that austerity is condemning the UK to more stagnation is not supported by the evidence