article_snippet.sent: David Cameron used a speech in Crewer to insist that the economy is the key issue in the general election.
article_snippet.sent: the economy isn’t just about the nation’s statistics, the economy’s about the nation’s families.
article_snippet.sent: It’s about the job you do, the chances your children have, the funding our have for our NHS and schools, the hope our have for our future – everything.
article_snippet.sent: In Labour’s Britain, where for every ten private sector jobs created in the South, just one was created in the North and the Midlands.
article_snippet.sent: ‘In Labour’s Britain, where the whole weight of our economy rested on massive public borrowing, unsustainable financial services, out-of-control immigration…a house of cards – ready to be blown away should any crisis hit.
article_snippet.sent: But in the great manufacturing plants of the West Midlands and North East, in tech start-ups from Dundee to Manchester, in the tourist and defence industries of the South West and Wales, the life sciences labs of the East of England: a truly national recovery.
article_snippet.sent: The Tories have been boosted by a string of positive economic news in recent weeks, but The Tories has failed to trigger an uptick in The Tories poll ratings.
article_snippet.sent: The employment rate is higher in regions like the South West and East of England than it is in London, according to the Office for National Statistics .
article_snippet.sent: The International Monetary Fund predicts the UK economy will grow by 2.7 per cent this year and 2.3 per cent in 2016, beaten only by the United States.