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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Jonathan Prynn and Nicolas Cecil

New blow for Rishi Sunak as economy shrinks for second month in row

The UK’s economy shrank by a bigger than feared 0.3 per cent in April, official figures revealed on Monday as Boris Johnson rejected demands to quickly cut taxes to ease the cost-of-living crisis.

The City had expected GDP to nudge up 0.1 per cent. But it fell for the second month in a row, having dipped 0.1 per cent in March.

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