{"id":38006,"date":"2014-01-21T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3b2cbfbf3d74ea81cb8356f6363632b3"},"modified":"2014-01-21T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T15:01:00","slug":"news-story-carmichael-comments-on-uk-economic-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=38006","title":{"rendered":"News story: Carmichael comments on UK economic news"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Responding to today\u2019s news that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imf.org\/external\/pubs\/ft\/weo\/2014\/update\/01\/index.htm\">increased its projection for UK growth<\/a> in 2014 from 1.9% to 2.4% the Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael said <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today\u2019s figures from the IMF show the UK is one of the fastest growing major economies in the developed world.  This is more positive news and is further evidence that this Government\u2019s long term economic plan is working.<\/p>\n<p>During the deepest recession in peacetime history we\u2019ve taken the difficult decisions needed so that we can build a stronger economy and a fairer society, providing a financially secure future for hardworking Scottish people and their families.  All that would be put at risk if we abandoned our long-term economic plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">With the UK\u2019s economic growth forecast to outstrip all of the Eurozone\u2019s major economies this year, Scotland\u2019s economy can be stronger and more successful as part of the UK with its security, scale and influence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Monetary Fund projections for growth is good news for United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}