News and headlines on the state of the UK economy. The latest economic data, reports and updates from the UK, including Budgets and inflation forecasts.
UK economy rallies from post-Brexit shock BRITAIN’S economy showed its clearest sign to date of bouncing back from the initial shock of June’s vote to leave the European Union, but a big slowdown in growth and a further Bank of England rate cut remain on the cards. A closely-watched m...
The original 2018 academic research was jointly commissioned by the UK and Canada to consider how to design a trade agreement between the two countries post-Brexit. As of April 1, 2021 and as predicted by our original 2018 work, an agreement, called the Canada-United Kingdom Trade Continuity...
The future of the UK economy is also not under a cloud, according to Sked. Some experts had predicted the UK economy would fall into recession after a vote for Brexit, but that has not happened.GDPgrowth was 0.3 percent quarter on quarter in Q2 this year, below trend and sluggish but n...
The UK-Swiss deal is based on the mutual recognition of each other’s regulatory regimes and is intended to bolster the City of London in a post-Brexitera. Hunt will claim on a visit to Bern that the agreement was made possible by Brexit allowing Britain to strike its own deals with maj...
As Britain's first post-Brexit budget, it is followed closely by leaders of industry, financiers, economists as well as the public. Britain's main business organization, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has already made its contribution to the budget process. ...
This paper discusses the prospects for UK's trade post Brexit. It argues that halfway house arrangements such as continued membership of the customs union or the European Economic Area (EEA) are not workable alternatives to full membership of the EU. The UK may have no other alternative to ...
"The UK's weak trade performance is unusual among advanced economies," he said. "The obvious culprit is Brexit." And the UK economy's poor performance in goods trading was further exposed in the latest report from the nation's official spending watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility,...
“Once fully implemented, these important post-Brexit measures will, I believe, bring considerable benefits to the UK economy and to UK trade, and the government stands ready to support businesses through this transition,” the formerTescosupermarket executive added. ...
What has happened to the UK economy since the Brexit vote? David Cameron, his Chancellor George Osborne and many other senior figures who wanted to stay in the EU predicted an immediate economic crisis if the UK voted to leave and it is true that the pound slumped the day after the refere...