In the news: how the media covered David Cameron's speech to the CBI Annual Conference
Reports focused on the prime minister's message on debt, growth and the eurozone crisis
Media coverage of David Cameron's keynote speech at CBI Annual Conference focused on the prime minister's tough message on reducing government debt and stimulating growth.
The Daily Telegraph picked up Mr Cameron's comment that there was no "silver bullet" to the current problems, reporting that: "David Cameron has admitted that the British economy is 'well behind where we need to be' and the Government does not have a 'silver bullet' to return the country to growth."
BBC News business reporter Russell Hotton said that one corporate executive had given the speech seven out of 10. He was in a cheery mood because he had met "like-minded individuals also struggling to see a way out of the mess. And that is probably the single most important reason business people come to these events. It acts as a comfort blanket - everyone is in this together".
Blogging live from the conference, Andrew Sparrow of The Guardian was less impressed. "David Cameron's speech was a fairly pedestrian one. It wasn't that it was bad; it was just that it did not say anything particularly new."
The Guardian's political report of the speech noted that Mr Cameron had "served notice that Britain faces a long and slow road to economic recovery, admitting that tackling high levels of debt is proving harder than he had imagined".
The Huffington Post focused on Mr Cameron's warning that the eurozone debt crisis was having a "chilling effect" on the UK economy. The website said the prime minister had warned that the eurozone crisis was likely to "hold the UK economy back in the months to come".
Ed Conway, Sky News's Economic Editor, asked on his Twitter account: "Of all the excellent adjectives one could have chosen to describe the euro crisis, why does David Cameron insist on 'chilling'?"
On her Twitter account, ITV News's Business Editor laura Kuenssberg said: "One businessman at CBI tells me after PM speech - 'he's very good at this...not so good at the substance'."
In its report of the speech, Reuters highlighted Mr Cameron's message that slow growth was making it harder than expected for Britain to cut its deficit, but even a temporary fiscal stimulus to boost the economy would be "dangerously wrong".
From the regional UK press, the Shropshire Star reported how Mr Cameron had insisted there was no justification for claims that additional spending now would pay off later.
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