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on February 15, 2019 in Featured World News

British Economy Defies Anti-Brexiteers to Outpace Europe

by Jack Montgomery The British economy is matching or outpacing growth in the Eurozone’s leading countries as Brexit approaches, with inflation falling and real wages rising. New Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show inflation down to a two-year low of 1.8 percent, and quarterly growth is running at 0.2 percent — outpacing Angela Merkel’s Germany, which is supposed to be the economic powerhouse of Europe, and appearing to give the lie to claims by EU loyalists that Britain has become “the sick man of Europe” since the 2016 vote to Leave the European Union. Chris Giles, economics editor of...

by Jack Montgomery The British economy is matching or outpacing growth in the Eurozone’s leading countries as Brexit approaches, with inflation falling and real wages rising. New Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show inflation down to a two-year low...

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