We could do with a dose of Barack Obama's honesty
While the Obama administration has frankly admitted the scale of America's financial problems, the British people are not being told the truth, says Shadow Chancellor George Osborne.
It is a tale of two cities. I have left behind a London stuck in a wasted year as a tired and embittered government desperately limps towards its electoral fate; and I have come to a Washington DC buzzing with the energy, ideas and enthusiasm of a new administration.
I am here to talk to the senior members of the Obama economic team. When I congratulated one of them on surviving the first 100 days, he replied: "Survived? I think we have done a lot ...
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