There's a reason why George Osborne looks this smug

Britain has put the financial crisis behind it and will be the fastest growing major economy in the developed world this year, the International Monetary Fund has said.

The IMF revealed in their World Economic Outlook for October that Britain’s growth, which was outstripping the rest of the G7 including the US, Germany and France, was strong enough to consign the effects of the financial crisis to the past.