The International Monetary Fund has just downgraded its forecasts for the UK’s growth in its World Economic Outlook series. The UK economy is now predicted to grow by 1.1% this year, a 0.5% drop since the IMF’s prediction in January of 1.6% in 2025. No amount of ‘growth’ gaslighting from Reeves can help her out with this one…
Meanwhile, global growth is projected to fall from 3.3% in 2024 to 2.8% in 2025 partly due to Trump’s tariffs. UK inflation is set to be 0.7% points higher this year, compared with the previous forecast at 3.1% thanks to Labour’s ‘Awful April’ bills. A brutal blow to the Chancellor…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”