sputtering “When the coalition government took office in 2010, it was obvious that the two engines of growth Labour had relied upon—financial services and an expanding public sector—were sputtering. The coalition quickly declared its intention to “rebalance” the economy from the public to the private sector, from services to manufacturing and from London to everywhere else. As Demo Day suggests, it achieved one of those three aims.” 1what does the sputtering "mean in this context ? (Almost) sealing the deal http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21647797-were-they-less-eurosceptic-tories-would-have-business-vote-bag-almost via Instapaper