Scrooge delivers economic growth for Christmas

Britain's growth figures have given the government a welcome boost before the next election.

There will be plenty of attempts to put a negative spin on last Friday's growth figures, says Dan Hodges in The Daily Telegraph.

It will be said that the recovery is not yet being felt in people's wallets; that it is based on exactly the same sort of property-price boom that precipitated the 2008 crash.

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