LONDON: British Finance Minister George Osborne will on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) insist that recent economic data has vindicated his austerity measures and warn that any backtracking could jeopardize the recovery.

Britain’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.7 percent in the second quarter or three months to the end of June, upwardly revised data showed last month.

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