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Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

Get it over with and call an election, Rishi — the economy won't look any better by November

With hindsight will this prove to be the day the number crunchers handed the keys of Number 10 to Keir Starmer?

The two sets of economic figures from the Office for National Statistics today were both, in their different ways, pretty dire. 

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