Lagarde was apologizing for the IMF’s poor forecasting of the United Kingdom’s recent economic performance, and, more seriously, for the Fund’s longer-standing criticism of the fiscal austerity pursued by Prime Minister David Cameron’s government. Now endorsing British austerity, Lagarde said that it had increased confidence in the UK’s economic prospects, thereby spurring the recent recovery.
普林斯顿—“要不我跪下谢罪？”国际货币基金组织（IMF）总裁拉加德如此问BBC的安德鲁·马尔（Andrew Marr）。拉加德在致歉，为IMF对英国近期经济表现预测失准，以及更严重的，为IMF对英国首相卡梅伦的财政紧缩措施的长期批评立场。如今，拉加德支持英国的紧缩措施，表示这提升了对英国经济前景的信心，从而刺激了目前的复苏。