Effect of stockpiling on growth will be small

We are not convinced by the argument that stockpiling ahead of Brexit will provide a big boost to GDP growth over the coming months and prompt an abrupt fall thereafter. Given that a large proportion of stocks are imported, we suspect it will have very little effect at all.

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