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PM: Recession not Labour’s fault after all
Cameron slips up during pro-EU campaign talk

DAVID CAMERON admitted yesterday that the last Labour government did not cause the recession that followed the 2008 financial crash.

The Prime Minister has claimed over the past eight years that Labour had “crashed the economy.”

But he inadvertently bust the myth that helped the Tories win two general elections as he sought to scare voters into staying in the EU with a Treasury dossier of dire warnings.

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