{"id":68767,"date":"2025-08-14T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/68767\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:28:08","slug":"uk-economic-growth-slows-to-0-3-between-april-and-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/68767\/","title":{"rendered":"UK economic growth slows to 0.3% between April and June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We\u2019re feeling more positive than we have in years&#8217;published at 08:27 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>08:27 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/e165a7f0-392b-43ef-a734-f78b15e4a1ff.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Peter Ruddick<br \/>Business reporter, reporting from Liverpool<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man in a black t shirt standing outside a restaurant\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/31da3ed8-f294-4859-bd97-30318a969cd1.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It\u2019s too early for champagne &#8211; both literally and metaphorically &#8211; in Liverpool this morning, but I\u2019ve already got some reaction from a bar owner to the economic figures, and it is quite positive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Iain Hoskins owns several venues and tells me he\u2019s feeling more hopeful than he has for some time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cWe were very worried, obviously, with the last Budget,\u201d he says. \u201cThe National Insurance rise was huge. That was \u00a3100,000 worth of costs added to our business. However, we\u2019re feeling more positive than we have done for the last few years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">So, what changed? Weather and consumer confidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cThe quarter that we are talking about, we had a very early summer and often that period can be a complete washout,\u201d he tells me. \u201cUnexpected sunshine really did bring people out in force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cInterest rates going down has really helped &#8211; more money in peoples\u2019 pockets. That is fundamental.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;We\u2019re feeling more positive than we have in years&#8217;published at 08:27 British Summer Time 08:27 BST Peter RuddickBusiness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-68767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}