Faisal Islam
GDP figure will frame the final leaders’ debate
Faisal Islam blogs on how today’s GDP figure will have a big role to play in next week’s leaders’ debate on the economy – and possibly the party campaigns.
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GDP: are economists too obsessed with the figures?
A report published by the Office for National Statistics shows even the number crunchers are at whether there is too much focus on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures, writes Neil Macdonald.
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Faisal Islam
Guessing the GDP in the leaders debate
We knew that the deficit was massive. Today we got confirmation that last year Britain borrowed a peacetime record, just below 11 per cent of national income. It is a mammoth sum, the sort of fiscal carnage only normally wrought by worldwide war. The news today, however, was that last year’s deficit ended up slightly…
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Faisal Islam
German GDP: at last, a stat that makes UK look good
Schadenfreude. As the cast of Avenue Q sing so admirably, “it’s German for happiness at the misfortune of others”. There may be a touch of it around the Treasury today. For months, they were told by the likes of the IMF that the UK would suffer the most stinkingly heinous recession of all the world’s…
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Government launches ‘branch and root’ review into defence
With the future of America’s military spending abroad looking uncertain, in the UK, the government has commissioned a review into Britain’s defensive capabilities.
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‘Europe can do more’ to help Ukraine, says a former defence secretary
We spoke to the former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace who stood down last summer, and left the Commons after the election last week.
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UK economy grows more than expected in May
Solving the pressures on the NHS would be a lot easier if there was faster economic growth – with higher tax revenues as a result.
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Starmer on defence: ‘That’s what you’d expect from a serious government’
We sit down with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to talk about his commitment of 2.5% of GDP on defence and tackling the crisis in UK prisons.
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Economy stalls with zero growth in April, as Sunak insists election isn’t over
His own defence minister is warning voters about the dangers of handing Labour a supermajority.
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The Estonian teenagers training for conflict and crisis
Estonia has just made defence training mandatory in all secondary schools.
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FactCheck: the Conservatives’ and Labour’s records on legal migration
Net migration is down 10 per cent – but still near a record high.
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NATO criticises Trump for comments that ‘put American and European soldiers’ at risk
There has been alarm and condemnation from America’s allies after former President Donald Trump suggested the US might leave NATO members undefended against a Russian invasion.
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UK economy shrinks more than expected in July due to rain and strikes
Amid a flurry of mixed signals on the state of the British economy, new figures show it shrank last month at a much faster pace than expected. The Office for National Statistics said GDP fell by 0.5% in July – blaming the rainy weather and widespread strikes. But just a few days ago the ONS…
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‘China and Russia have had a big influence on which countries have been selected’: Jim O’Neill on the expansion of BRICS
The five-nation BRICS group of major emerging economies has invited Iran, Saudi Arabia and four other countries to join its ranks – part of its plan to put voices of the Global South at the centre of the world agenda.
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UK economy expands by 0.1% in first quarter of 2023
Rail services have been crippled by striking train drivers again in England today and more walkouts are planned tomorrow.
