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Yes I know that the Telegraph is more supporting Conservatives more than Labour, but facts are facts.
Britain is enjoying its best rate of employment in 40 years and has become a poster-child of economic success in a depressed world still struggling to shake off the lingering effects of the financial crisis, George Osborne has claimed.
Basking in lavish praise from the International Monetary Fund, the Chancellor said the latest jobs data are a resounding triumph for British economic management under the Conservatives.
"The UK economy is one of the brighter spots in the world economy at the moment. That is confirmed by the IMF forecast, which shows the UK is the second fastest growing economy of the G7 in the next two years, after being the fastest-growing in 2014," he said.
"All of that is more than reinforced by the employment figures we saw this morning, which showed a record number of people in work, and claimant counts at the lowest level since 1975," he said.
Unemployment dropped by 76,000 to 1.84m over the three months to February. A record 31m people are in work, and the jobless rate has fallen to 5.6pc, close to the inflexion point where it starts to generate wage pressures.
"The British economy is a job-creating machine, and we set out plans today as the Conservative Party, to go on creating 2m jobs in the next parliament," he said.
I appreciate that not everything is working well for everyone, but it is nearly there.
Roger