Summary
Time to recap – here are today’s main stories, as economists give their verdict on the UK’s troubling economic situation:
Our ever-brilliant Politics Live blog has more coverage of the reaction to the autum statement, by my colleagues Rachel Hall and Fran Lawther.
Have a lovely weekend, see you on Monday. GW
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Twitter is experiencing a rise in outages, as the crisis gripping the social media company deepens.
Twitter has temporarily closed its offices to staff, after hundreds of employees were reported to have rejected Elon Musk’s ultimatum to keep working for the business.
here we go pic.twitter.com/RlwecsB9a7
— Paul McNamara (@M_PaulMcNamara) November 18, 2022
This has fuelled fears over Twitter’s ability to keep operating, as my colleague Josh Taylor reports:
On Thursday evening, the version of the Twitter app used by employees began slowing down, according to one source familiar with the matter, who estimated that the public version of Twitter was at risk of breaking during the night. Website DownDetector reported a significant uptick in user reports of issues on the site.
“If it does break, there is no one left to fix things in many areas,” the person said, who declined to be named for fear of retribution.
