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PM hails austerity as Cable calls for Plan B

DAVID Cameron will today defiantly claim the UK Government's austerity programme is beginning to work as his Liberal Democrat Business Secretary Vince Cable suggests the time might be ripe to start borrowing more to boost capital investment – the so-called Plan B.

The Prime Minister's keynote speech on the economy will coincide with an announcement by BT of the creation of more than 1000 engineering jobs.

Yet while he will tell an audience in West Yorkshire that the Coalition will stick to the course, Mr Cable suggests a change of direction might be called for.

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