Norman Lamont was ridiculed as Chancellor during the last recession not only because he sang in the bath as Britain exited the ERM but also because he spotted the “green shoots” of recovery far too early.
Shriti Vadera, Berr minister, has just made the same clanger. Baroness Vadera told ITV News today:
“I am seeing a few green shoots but it’s a little bit too early to say exactly how they’d grow.”
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