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by heneryville 1241 days ago
This has much more to do with Russia than the UK. Not mentioned in the article is that the IMF revised it's 2023 predictions from -2.3% to 0.3%, citing strong government spending on the war.

In other words, this is where GDP figures aren't great. A country that is deficit spending to buy weapons to get its own people (and others) killed looks like a great economy on paper, but not really in actuality.