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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 2nd December 2021 - UK economy expected to outpace rest of G7 over next two years
Description: "Any discussion about the prospects for growth in the UK economy going forward must be prefixed by concerns over the effect of the new variant of Coronavirus.
Nonetheless, the OECD published a report yesterday in which it states a belief that the UK economy will grow at the fastest rate of its G7 partners.
It predicts growth of 6.9% this year and 4.2% in 2022. Having fallen by the largest rate in the G7, these fugues may be a little misleading, but they are a positive signal despite this.
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will doubtless welcome the positivity that this news generates...