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Unemployment in the UK

We clearly need to achieve economic stability in this country and in other parts of the world. There is no doubt about that. Economic stability is the only environment in which to do business and it is a tragedy that we have gone from a boom to a bust in this country despite being told by the Prime Minister that there would be no more boom and no more bust—that somehow we had got over that, as he had changed the laws of economics. However, it was not like that, and our businesses are paying the price today.