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Is Britain really heading for a Brexit recession?

9 August 2019

10:15 PM

9 August 2019

10:15 PM

The sense of excitement among some Remainers is almost palpable. Finally – after three years of waiting – a quarter of negative growth has materialised following all the grim warnings of Brexit-related economic turmoil.

The Office of National Statistics (ONS) this morning released its first estimate for economic growth for the second quarter of this year, which has come out at minus 0.2

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