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I think you can look at the British economy with confidence. -- George Osborne
It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy. -- Lucy Powell
We want a strong, vibrant economy for Britain so that we can set out a clear and affordable alternative programme for government. -- Charles Kennedy
We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy. -- Vince Cable
I will stay living in Staffordshire. Other people would be moving offshore. I am reasonably happy to help support the British economy. I have done very well out of Britain. -- John Caudwell
I became a Conservative in the late 1980s because I could see that the Conservative party had transformed Britain's economy and our standing in the world compared to Labour in the 1980s. -- Andrew Lansley
The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes. -- John Redwood
Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere. -- Iain Duncan Smith
Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services. -- Lucy Powell
The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending. -- Vince Cable
The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn't. -- David Miliband
We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one. -- Vince Cable
Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs. -- Philip Hammond
It seems to me that the Conservatives neither recognise the scale of the living standards crisis facing British families nor offer credible answers as to how the British economy or British society can be better in the future. -- Douglas Alexander
The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm. -- George Osborne
We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another. -- Vince Cable
It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit. -- Lucy Powell
British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth Â£21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. -- Natalie Massenet
We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls. -- James Goldsmith

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