Brexit Holds an Ominous Lesson for Labour’s Surprise GDP Surge
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For investors and economists who made it through the years-long Brexit saga, the UK’s latest GDP release may seem familiar: a sudden jolt in growth, factories racing to boost production, and all while international trading relationships remain up in the air.
The official data suggested that British manufacturers sped up production lines and rushed out exports to the US in February, as they sought to get ahead of Donald Trump’s bid to upend global trade with sweeping tariffs.