UK heads towards recession

We have been more concerned than most forecasters about the outlook for the UK economy and, in particular, the prospect of an abrupt unwinding of the various imbalances that have built up over the last decade or so. But recent news has suggested that things are likely to be even worse than we had previously thought, with a strong chance that the economy enters a technical recession.

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