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.”
Jim Pickard and Alex Barker, FT Westminster correspondents, share the latest news and gossip from the UK's political scene.
Alex Barker has been an FT political correspondent since July 2007. He joined the paper in 2005, after working in current affairs television.
Jim Pickard joined the FT's lobby team in January 2008, having been a regional correspondent, assistant UK news editor and property correspondent.
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