The International Monetary Fund has significantly lowered its UK growth forecast for 2012 to 0.2% and warned the risks from the eurozone debt crisis "continue to loom large".
The global organisation's forecast was yesterday reduced from 0.8% just three months ago, reflecting the UK's slide into a double-dip recession in the first quarter of the year and the gloomier outlook for the world economy.
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