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    Howard - the right of centre government was just 3 seats short of an overall majority with the anti-immigration Swedish Democrats getting about 20 seats. The socialists had their worse result since 1914.

    The economic policy of the centre right government for the last four years is similar to ours. Anders Borg, who is their finance minister, has been cutting Sweden's massive welfare state, he reduced unemployment benefit and brought in an earned-income tax credit.

    Unemployment there is 8%, but by relying on the private sector to create jobs to compensate for job losses in the public sector has paid dividends. Sweden's GDP is set to grow faster than that of any other western OECD country.

    They of course voted not to join the Euro in 2003 and that has certainly helped them along.

    All in all Sweden is a very encouraging precedent for David Cameron and bodes ill for Labour.

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