October’s GDP figures made more grim reading for the Labour ‘Party for Growth’, with analysts including Julian Jessop claiming Britain is on now “recession watch”. The Reeves Budget isn’t expected to help either…
Economists at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research now warn that the UK will have no growth in Q4, with key sectors like services and production grinding to a halt thanks to “budget measures weighing on private sector activity”. Meanwhile business confidence in the UK nosedived to its lowest level in November…
Hailey Low, an associate economist at NIESR said:
“A weakening export climate amid rising global policy uncertainties and declining business confidence, exacerbated by the impact of recently announced budget measures, raises concerns about sustaining the growth momentum.”
Things can’t only get better…
Starmer spoke to Nick Robinson for the Today Programme on Polanski’s criticism of the Golders Green police officers:
“I want everybody just to imagine what it might be like. You’re trying to arrest someone who has already attacked two people and has no regard for life. We know that tasers were fired. I know from my own experience with the police, that there are only two shots in a taser, and once you’ve shot them, there’s nothing left. There’s a guy on the ground, he’s got a rucksack on. And I don’t know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I’d be thinking, he’s going to detonate something. He’s going to blow me up and everybody around here. In those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is, we need to do whatever we can to disable this guy…
Now, when I then see Zack Polanski come out and retweet or support a criticism of that, I think it’s disgraceful… He’s not fit to lead any political party.”