Gavin Friend
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7,937 appearances
60 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 2 Sep
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Uh they're pressing
the government now for assistance.
It doesn't look good.
Um, you know, the PMI has been very soft on that.
Um so we look the the the the consensus for for for Q two is 0.4 uh Q on Q uh from from Q one's point six.
That's not bad actually.
It does show in the big picture that actually the UK, like Europe, as we saw in Q2, is uh is performing relatively well.
Um
you know, you know, against this uh the energy the energy hit that uh both areas are are are facing into.
Um but we're gonna get the monthly number for for uh June as well um today.
And that's likely to show uh a one tenth fall after a one tenth rise.
And, you know, as we said before, as we go through the year we get this um
slowing pattern of growth in the UK.
We start the year strong and then we end in the second half, weaker.
Andy Burnham, the Prime Minister, you know, he hasn't faced uh the difficult questions yet on the budget.
Uh that that comes a bit later.
And uh so the idea that growth is gonna pick up
Even though he's enjoying a bit of a honeymoon bounce on his, you know, personal ratings and poll ratings at the moment, um, you know, the hard yards are yet to come.
Yeah, that's right.
Um I mean we you know it it's a it's a well timed event given what we learned from the RBA this week, you know, in terms of uh the asymmetric risks for inflation emanating from, you know, what's coming out of uh the Iran conflict, the idea that that data center build up on construction is a bit of a uh uh uh you know, an inflationary impulse.
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