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Recession and Rumours
Is the next recession likely to be a middle class one?
Ministers have been avoiding the word 'recession', but this taboo has now been broken, first by the governor of the Bank of England and then by Gordon Brown. But is this likely to be a very different sort of recession - a middle class one? Plus, political scandal in Westminster as rumours abound that the shadow chancellor George Osborne sought a political donation from Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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