“As the UK moves into recovery from COVID-19, political pledges to ‘build back better’ will only be fulfilled if policies actively reduce the kinds of inequalities that have grown since the financial crisis over a decade ago.”
UK manufacturing output was flat in January, ending the sector’s longest period of continued decline since the financial crisis.
Wage growth also saw a second consecutive month of decline as earnings remained below their pre-financial crisis peak.
GDP data reveals Britain’s annual economic performance is the weakest since 2010 when it was emerging from a global financial crisis.
It is the first of its kind since the 2008 recession.
Trump's tariffs have been described as 'little more than economic suicide.'
Parts of Britain are now worse off than the poorest areas of Lithuania and Slovenia.
Polling suggests support for EU membership among Iceland's population is growing.
Bosses received £770,000 in bonuses despite the company seeing a 40 per cent increase in pollution incidents.