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Top Tory finds a silver lining to cloudy economic downturn

Conservative frontbencher Andrew Mitchell has managed to find a silver lining to the credit crunch and economic downturn:

“We have seen the effect of the credit crunch, the looming recession -which I hope doesn’t come but is now increasingly likely- and people are beset with problems and difficulties and they want to know how the Conservative party would tackle them. This is an incredibly good moment for us, both in terms of policy and in terms of the fact that David Cameron has earned us the chance to be heard, for us to get across how we would tackle those problems,” Cameron’s pal says in an interview seen by the Evening Standard.
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