The UK's economy shrank by 19.1% in the three months to May, as the full impact of lockdown was felt, the Office for National Statistics has said.
Mr Athow told the BBC's Today programme that there could be signs of improvement in next month's release of figures. "I know people are worried about the security of their jobs and incomes. That's why I set out our Plan for Jobs last week, following the PM's new deal for Britain, to protect, support and create jobs as we safely reopen our economy.
As job losses mount, it clear that even some firms who qualify for government help, are faltering. Some won't have made it as far.
bbclaurak SarBritcliffeMP perhaps you might let me know what your thought are on the impact on your constituents and how Brexit will help. I don’t expect a reply TBH!
This isn’t news, this is common sense. This is scaremongering and does not need reporting on.
Breaking news 2021 UK economy goes up 5%. It just numbers the unfortunate thing is the poor suffer...
Shrink again soon with this mask bullshit coming into play
bbclaurak but, a 1/5 shrinkage is actually a 20% growth. it's the new normal
All politicians discussing the effects of this pandemic 🤨thousands of lives lost, the economy is in shit, people’s livelihoods affected, But they are ignoring the Cause, when WHO Declared pandemic, you all failed to screen the passengers coming through your bloody borders🤧🤑
Economy down in the dump, thousands died and many still dying daily, no deal Brexit looming, but hey let's follow warmongering US and go to war with China over HK and free Muslims in some place we never heard of, as well as join in Huawei trade war to benefit US at our expense.
bbclaurak Well there’s a surprise.
Will drop even more now with the new stupid rule!
Wow..you are genius. No one expected that at all
MoyraMahoney To be honest I’m amazed it’s only 1/5th!!
If Its true blame China it was a virus that came from there. ChineseVirus
How can it be a surprise. Bin the BBC
bbclaurak That maybe true, but it is last month's headline. BBC just can't stop itself pumping out negative news about the government.🤬
BBCWalesNews Tell us something we don’t no
bbclaurak Wow... Who's the Einstein that work that one out.. the BBC stating the patently obvious again
bbclaurak This is the bbc attack headline.. we already knew it had dropped 20% so why didn’t you mention it grown MoM
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has billions. £2 billion Kickstart Scheme £1.6 billion will be invested in scaling up employment support schemes and so on. And all seems to be for the young seems like when you in your 30's than you out How old are you chancellor?
Enjoy it bitches
Oh, what a surprise Even a 10 year old could explain why, without trying to political point score. But never the less, very much in keeping with the BBC anti government propaganda rhetoric. No wonder millions are signing the petition to have the BBC defunded from the public purse
The UK economy grew 1.8% In May which is good news and missing from the BBC headline.
Yo JDMahama UK economy is also under ICU oo , care to help?
bbclaurak No shit sherlock.
Hardly surprising as the shops/restaurants etc. have been shut! Unable to buy cheap clothes from Primark has ruined the economy?😉😷 Stay Alert and Eat to help out!
bbclaurak Yep and once again the super rich are making billions on the back of it 😡
Okay - so how does that compare to the rest of the globe (apart from China) as we all lockdown in a similar way. Therefore economically we ALL suffered the same worldwide - China manufactured this virus and spread it so they have benefited over ALL countries before & after
Surprised its not more
Really it’s not rocket science!!
This is down to the incompetence of the Tory party. Their appalling handling of the crisis has given Britain the highest death rate in the world and avoidable damage to the economy
Well there’s a shock 🤷🏻♂️
And how is this surprising?
BBCWalesNews Wow I would never have guessed that
No shit Sherlock
Bbc celebrating 🌈👍🌈
Don’t worry. Manchester City’s spending spree will help 😁
Wow slow news day?
UK economy can shrink to zero as far as I'm concerned. The shops are not getting my money.
No shit Sherlock.
bbclaurak Some of the replies on here 😂 I think even the hard of understanding were expecting this it's the same everywhere. Yet the hate peddlers and bots continue in their ever diminishing echo chamber. Have a day off.
Less than I expected.
bbclaurak Brexit: hold my beer.
Although it probably should have shrank more but seems that there have been a indusrty which legally still can't work, but they have actually been doing it just cash .........
bbclaurak And my rage has increased by 20% under this 'Tory-Arschloch-Kleiderbügel' government also by another 30% on top because the BBC has not questioned/held this government to account, even Andrew Marr has only one good fist to wave at tories, BBC start doing something...
No shit sherlock
Ah, glass half empty. And how will you insult us tomorrow?
No shit sherlock
Do you think maybe having such an incompetent government maybe doesn’t help - read this to see what they’ve been doing with public money
Thank you Captain Obvious
We need to apply extreme tariffs on imports from the country that caused this nightmare. and we need fundamental reform to the World Health organisation.
It’s up 1.8%.
Stop talking about economy/GDP. Start talking about lives lost and how many people going into poverty or becoming homeless. All the lost jobs and GDP talk is superficial and does not matter. Only lives matter! Stop being disgusting. YangGang UniversalIncome BasicIncome
Thus proving once and for all that rich people are not wealth creators.
Well that;s better they were talking about a quarter last week
Breaking News - really? How many more would have died if hadn’t locked down (should have done it earlier). Why don’t you look at economies of other affected countries? Have their economies stayed the same - you make it sound like it’s only UK with a shrinking economy? Context.
its all the art of the plan crash the economy to bring in NWO control everything. before i forget DefundTheBBC do not pay your tv licence cancel it the less money they have the quicker to get there news of air DefundTheBBC 👍
Thought it would be higher!
On again off again lockdown is crazy..just do it right and take the hit rather than dragging it out which will damage the economy more going forward..I can understand trump messing up but boris has four more years so no problem doing the right thing.
If there had been test and trace and mask adoption UK could have opened up earlier and not have been affected so badly economically or in lives (foresight used by Germany / Czech etc) But UK has a clown who is so slow in defence against Covid
Chinese economy shrunk by 6.8% US 5.7% German 6.5% France 11% Spain 12.4% The world is is in the same boat.
And a majority shit lazy public sector who do not want to go back to work because their arses are covered by Gov supports and bail outs while the rest of the country suffers and the economy disappears
Note as bad as I was expecting to be honest
I bet that made your day
The UK economy grew by 1.8 percent in May as activity began to recover as the coronavirus lockdown eased, the Office for National Statistics has said.
Well, there's a shocker! NOT!!! 🙄
All because of a fucking flu.
This is the bbc telling you the economy grew by 1.8% in May. DefundBBC.
That’s not breaking news - it’s expected news 😂
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