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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Simon English

The leeches aren’t healing our sick economy, so Hunt and Bailey will only prescribe more

Sad news from the ailing body that is the UK economy. GDP fell by 0.1% in May, which means growth has been flat for the last quarter.

The economy is “listless”, says Samuel Tombs at Pantheon Macroeconomics. Every sector of the economy is either flat or shrinking, while inflation of nearly 9% is more than four times what it is supposed to be.

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