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Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Welcome to a special edition of the New Statesman Podcast where we chew over the

spending review fallout. I'm joined by our politics editor Raphael Bear and the

editor of the Staggers George Eton. George first of all before we get the spending room, I just wanted to talk quickly about the GDP figure provisions.

What's happened and should we care?

Yes, the double dip officially never happened, so the ONS have revised growth in the first quarter of 2012 from

minus 0.1 to 0% so the slightest possible improvement and the Tories have the

the choice spin machine has jumped and the song and said look the double dip didn't

happen and actually while we're at it the O and S have also said the the earlier recession was even

deeper than we first saw I think they'd be wrong to be too gleeful because no one

outside of Westminster and the economics profession looks at GDP figures.

What matters for most people is that things are getting more expensive

and their wages generally aren't rising.

And the reality is that, I mean, there are a lot of people

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