On Sky News, business correspondent Gurpreet Narwan dsescribed the economic news as “welcome” for the government, but cautioned that this might be “the last growth we see.”
She told viewers that businesses in the UK had faced “crippling tax rises, those national insurance contribution increases coming down the road, [and] confidence is falling” adding that “this feels a bit kind of redundant already, doesn’t it? Because of the week we’ve had, it might be the last growth we see now that Donald Trump has imposed sweeping tariffs on countries across the world.”
She continued “Businesses might be nervous about investing, for example, about hiring, and they still don’t know what Donald Trump is exactly up to. So overall, the outlook for the UK economy is pretty poor because of what Donald Trump is doing in the US.”
ShareOn the media round today for the Conservatives was shadow minister for the environment Robbie Moore, who said “of course, we welcome any growth figures” when asked about February’s GDP figures.
However, he expressed concern about the wider direction of the economy, telling Sky News viewers:
This is just for February, and we know that the OBR...
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