More evidence that the Chancellor may have got it wrong.This morning's IFS survey which was tauted around by David Cameron during PMQ's is quickly followed by the IMF which has just come out with figures that suggest that Britain's output will contract by another 2.8 per cent over the next 12 months.
This is bad news for Brown/Darling as they were looking at a contraction of 1.75 per cent with signs of growth beginning in the second half of the year.
No so says the IMF which predicts a meagre growth of just 0.2 per cent in 2010.
Furthermore if we are looking at exports to pull us out of the mire think again.They are saying that world economic growth will be just 0.5 % this year,that's the lowest since the second world war.
Other highlights from the international monetary fund include 51 million jobs to be lost worldwide making 7.1% of the world unemployed compared to around 6 per cent at present.
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