UK economy grows at fastest pace in a year

“These compositional effects may have contributed a bit to the very strong wage figures we have been seeing in the past several months, since some jobs have been lost from the lower end of the income...

Paul Dales, economist at the consultancy Capital Economics, said a 5.9 per cent increase in business investment in the period was “completely at odds with the plunge in business sentiment”.

Paul Dales, UK economist at Capital Economics, said the effective US import tariff rate on the UK would stand at about 11 per cent as a result of the arrangement, far higher than the 1 per cent that...