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OECD downgrade Britain's economic prospects
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BRITAIN’S likely growth rate next year has been slashed in forecasts by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has issued.

The economy will grow by just 0.7 per cent in 2024, down from a previously forecast and already-anaemic 0.8 per cent, the OECD predict.

This will be the second-slowest growth rate among the world’s leading G7 advanced capitalist economies. It may rise to a feeble 1.2 per cent in 2025.

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