The majority of voters believe the Government’s austerity plan has failed, according to a new poll.
According to the ComRes Survey for The Independent, 58% of people agree the economic plan has failed, while only 31% disagree.
But only slightly more people support Labour’s “time for change” message rather than any promise from the Conservatives to continue with their plan to reinvigorate the economy after the next general election in 2015.
At the weekend, Minister without Portfolio Ken Clarke said that the UK economy was “bouncing along the bottom” and could take another three years to heal.
He said the 0.3% GDP growth figure for the first quarter of this year was better than many other Western countries. But he warned that UK plc was likely to be just “keeping its head above the water” until after the general election.
Mr Clarke said: “We were left with a public deficit and debt which rivalled Greece, size for size.”
He said Britain was “slowly getting out of it”, arguing that the UK was cutting spending slower than France.
