We’re out of recession, but do Brown and Cameron look daft?

Who comes away with most egg on their face after a figure like that? The economy may have grown 0.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2009.

But does it make Gordon Brown look a bit premature in announcing the country’s out of recession?

This figure is preliminary and could be revised downwards. Or does David Cameron now look daft for saying we’re in the clear and should slam on the public spending cut brakes?

Neither gets a terrific shot in the arm from today’s figures.

The now long-established roughly 40/30/20 divide between the parties has not been dealt a mighty shock, it’s not a game-changing statistic and will probably just confirm people in the camps they already sit in.