{"id":544719,"date":"2026-04-22T13:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544719\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:56:09","slug":"economic-optimism-falls-to-lowest-level-since-1978-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544719\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Optimism Falls to Lowest Level Since 1978 \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some damning research from Ipsos\u2019 tracker, which shows that optimism in the economy is at its lowest level since records began:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNet economic optimism in Britain has fallen to the lowest levels ever recorded since Ipsos began collecting this data in 1978. 78% of Brits expect the economy to get worse over the next 12 months, 12% think it will stay the same, and just 6% think it will improve \u2013 giving a net Ipsos economic optimism index score of -72.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-544866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ipsos-economic-index.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"540\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Are the securonomics in the room with us right now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some damning research from Ipsos\u2019 tracker, which shows that optimism in the economy is at its lowest level&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,90532,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-544719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-ipsos","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}