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Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn and Nicholas Cecil

Rachel Reeves slammed for 'taking eye off ball' as UK economy grows by just 0.1%

Britain’s sluggish economy stayed firmly “stuck in a rut” in the fourth quarter of 2025 when GDP advanced by just 0.1%.

The weaker than expected figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest the damaging speculation during the long build-up to the late November Budget hit economic activity at the end of the year.

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