This easily beat 0.2% growth in France and no growth in Germany, and it was also stronger than the eurozone area, US and Japan.
‘This is the longest period of post-war growth since records were taken,’ Brown said.
He added that growth was expected to be between 3% to 3.5% for the next two years.
Inflation was put at 2.3% since 1997.
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