Economics
Tear down this wall! UK income gap now bigger than East and West Germany
The UK has become one of the most regionally unequal industrialised economies in the world, a report by CEPR finds.
Brexit deals UK economy ‘productivity penalty’ of £29 billion – or £1k per household
An external member of the Bank's monetary policy committee said a wave of investment "stopped in its tracks" in 2016 following the vote.
Brexit ‘costing UK economy £100bn a year’, Telegraph says
"Did the UK commit an act of economic self-harm when it voted to leave the EU in 2016? The evidence so far still suggests it did."
BBC reporting ‘not politically biased’, but ‘strongly led by Westminster narrative’
An analysis of the corporation’s coverage found that a lack of impartiality could be caused by "uninformed groupthink".
UK will endure ‘longest and deepest recession’ due to policy mistakes
"The UK suffers from an energy shock as bad as Europe's, an inflation problem as bad as the US and a unique problem of labour supply."
‘We do not recognise this analysis’: Treasury responds to dismal Brexit data
"We are taking full advantage of the opportunities of Brexit"....
Policymakers urged to stop using GDP to measure success
Carnegie UK is calling for Gross Domestic Wellbeing (GDWe) to be used as an alternative metric to GDP.
Economy shrinks in what could be start of long recession
The Office for National Statistics said gross domestic product dropped by 0.3 per cent between July and August, down from growth of 0.1 per cent the previous month.
Bank tells Brits to buckle up for ‘longest recession in modern history’
The recession could last throughout 2023 and well into 2024.