Total UK private sector output growth has slowed to its lowest since May as the recently published S&P Global Flash PMI indicates falling confidence in the economy.
UK manufacturing output has also fallen to a 6-month low and around 50,000 jobs have been lost in the 3 months to September. S&P’s Chris Williamson says the latest data brings “a litany of worrying news including weakening growth, slumping overseas trade, worsening business confidence and further steep job losses.” Bad news ahead of Reeves’ Winter Budget…
Commenting on the report, Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith, said: “It’s hard to have confidence when the Chancellor is more out of her depth than that Titanic submarine.” Iceberg ahead…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”