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Thread #162855   Message #3881072
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
09-Oct-17 - 05:45 AM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
From: Steve Shaw - PM
Date: 09 Oct 17 - 05:14 AM
...UK economy was the weakest in Europe in the first quarter of 2017. The UK’s large Continental peers – Germany, France – grew by 0.6 per cent and 0.4 per cent respectively. Britain’s 0.2 per cent expansion in the three months to March put it at the bottom of the EU league table. The UK had the lowest GDP growth rate in the European Union in the first quarter of 2017, according to the European statistics agency Eurostat.

A selective set of stats, as it only covers a 3 month period, which may not be representative.

The Guardian also gives these figures, but goes on to state:
However, in year-on-year terms the UK was closer to the EU performance and ahead of the 19-nation eurozone. After a strong second half to 2016, when the economy defied predictions of a post-referendum slump, UK GDP was still 2% bigger in the first quarter of 2017 than a year earlier. The EU’s economy was 2.1% bigger on the year while the eurozone was up 1.9%.

And before I get cited as also using selective statements, The Guardian does go on to predict lower figures for UK for 2017/2018.