GDP growth: Govt must kickstart growth and “quit slowcoach approach”

EMBARGO: Immediate Release

Responding to the news that GDP only grew by 0.1% in August, Daisy Cooper, Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson, said: 

"Today's figures show the economy climbing slower than a sloth under a government simply not doing enough to kickstart growth.  

"The Chancellor must quit her slowcoach approach to the economy and finally drop her damaging national insurance hike, which has stifled business and hit high streets up and down the country.

“The Government must take today's news as a wakeup call and put an ambitious growth plan front and centre of their Budget later this Autumn - starting with a bespoke new UK-EU customs union which would unleash the potential of British exporters to trade more easily with our European neighbours.”

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