The soaring cost of living is far from unique to the UK, but the forecasts look particularly bleak here: the British Chambers of Commerce talks of growth “grinding to a halt” this year, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development reckons only Russia will have a more poorly performing economy than the UK next year, among the G20 group of countries.
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