“Progress in pockets of the economy have been stifled by new barriers to construction and employment leaving the UK, in our view, no better off than it was in July 2024”
“Over the course of their premiership, the economy grew at roughly 1.2 per cent a year, broadly in line with the average since the country emerged from the 2008 financial crisis”
“Gross Domestic Product per capita – which takes into account the population size – grew slightly faster than the post-crisis trend, boosted in part by Starmer’s successful efforts to bring down immig…”
“French said the government could issue tax‑exempt 10‑year war bonds with interest rates about 0.5 percentage points lower than standard 10 year gilts.”
