Analysis: Political taboos on the line as UK seeks to re-start growth

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LONDON (Reuters) - British policymakers are looking for lessons from the depressed 1930s in their hunt for a way out of the country's longest slump since then - but the answer may not be what a government focused on fiscal austerity is hoping for. Slashing Britain's massive budget deficit was the top goal when the coalition government took power in 2010. Now, however, economic growth is moving up the agenda. Britain's economy is in its second recession in four years, and the euro zone debt crisis is casting an ever-darker pall over domestic firms' willingness to invest and create jobs. ...




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