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Clegg: GDP figures 'sobering'

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Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said the latest GDP figures show that the "level in decline in economic activity is much sharper than the government has admitted".

The UK economy shrank 1.9% in the first three months of 2009, according to gross domestic product data from the Office for National Statistics.

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