Politics

Labour shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, on the other hand, said that growth is “on the floor”.

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards is investigating the former health secretary over a possible breach of the MPs' code of conduct.

Here we answer some key questions about what the latest GDP figures mean for the economy and people’s money.

The OBR says the post-Brexit trading deal reached with the EU will reduce Britain’s long-run productivity by some four per cent.

It was enough to dupe deputy Tory chairman Lee Anderson, who claims other EU countries are "jealous" of the UK's newfound freedom.

Alastair Campbell said "we shouldn’t need" fact-checking videos in a country that claims to have a free media. "But we need it more than ever".

"To do what ... destroy economy, hand tax cuts to the rich, hand £bns to speculators, destroy pension schemes?", Prem Sikka asked.

"Lis Truss makes a remark expecting applause, something, anything. But nothing. Pin drop silence."

Labour has branded Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s tax cut for people with pension pots worth more than £1 million a ‘giveaway to the top 1 per cent’.