UK will be second-fastest-growing G7 economy, IMF predicts
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Getty Images Chancellor Rachel Reeves said, despite the IMF's upgrade to UK economic growth, "for too many people, our economy feels stuck"
The UK is forecast to be the second-fastest growing of the world's most advanced economies this year, according to new projections from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The rates of growth remain modest at 1.3% for this year and next, but that outperforms the other G7 economies apart from the US in 2025, in a torrid year of trade and geopolitical tensions. However, UK inflation is set to rise to the highest in the G7 in 2025 and 2026, the IMF predicts, driven
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