Platform: Dithering pair must take action now to help the UK's economy

WITH the Chancellor Alistair Darling's assessment that economic conditions are "arguably the worst they've been for 60 years", one might wonder why Labour spent the whole summer in denial about economic outlook and why – to be blunt – it hasn't done anything about it.

Food and fuel price inflation is sky-high, mortgages are more difficult to get and thousands of mortgage products have been withdrawn; builders are mothballing sites, workers are being laid off and the knock-on impact is now hitting estate agents.
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