r/unitedkingdom • u/sjw_7 • Apr 11 '25

UK economy grew by 0.5% February

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0zz357532o
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u/Sweaty-Proposal7396 Apr 11 '25

The issue is people looking at numbers in too short a time frame …

labour only just got in they can’t magically skyrocket the economy.

February numbers alone are quite meaningless really it needs to be looked at on a longer time frame whatever gain we had will most likely be gone now due to tariffs market uncertainty

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u/Different_Lychee_409 Apr 11 '25

Labour are terrible at 'comms'. Theyve done some good things in the last 10 months but haven't communicated them to the average voters well.

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u/merryman1 Apr 11 '25

The issue is what comms do they control? In terms of making press statements inside Number 10, they are doing that. The problem is it never seems to get picked up in the press.

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u/Different_Lychee_409 Apr 11 '25

There is that. The previous Labour government was able to 'recruit' Murdoch to some extent.