article_snippet: George Osborne's taunts have hit a nerve in Paris, after the Chancellor boasted that Britain's booming economy was storming ahead of France.
article_snippet: Senior Tories have repeatedly contrasted the UK's strong recovery with the sluggish growth and high unemployment on the other side of the Channel where socialist Francois Hollande has floundered.
article_snippet: French has hit back after George Osborne's repeatedly contrasted the UK's strong recovery with the sluggish growth and high unemployment on the other side of the Channel .
article_snippet: In French minister Segolene Royal Budget statement last week, George Osborne's made several references to Britain's strong growth compared to France.
article_snippet: George Osborne's mocked the high rate of French unemployment, quipping that one English county - Yorkshire - had created more jobs than the whole of France.
article_snippet: George Osborne's pointed to forecasts suggesting the British economy grew by 2.6 per cent last year, '50 per cent faster than Germany, three times faster than the euro-zone – and seven times faster than France'.
article_snippet: Our economy is growing seven times faster than France's,' Mr Cameron wrote in the Sunday Times. '
article_snippet: Our economy has enjoyed much stronger growth than France since the crash in 2008, according to Eurostat .
article_snippet: Unemployment has also fallen more sharply in the UK than on the other side of the Channel where more than 10 per cent were out of work in 2014 .
article_snippet: London Mayor Boris Johnson said: '(Labour) have an overt admiration for the way things are done in France, where things have unemployment now running at around 12 per cent. '
highlights_snippet: Senior Tories say the state of France's economy justifies Senior Tories policies .
  