BRITAIN'S business leaders are putting off vital investment because of their fears over the continued recession, which most now believe will continue for the rest of 2012.

The gloomy views contained in a poll of more than 1200 members of the Institute of Directors (IoD), published today, come as George Osborne's core economic policy suffered yet another blow, with official figures showing a shock rise in Britain's borrowing last month.

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