{"id":7388,"date":"2019-02-11T09:52:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T09:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/uk-economic-growth-slowest-since-2012\/"},"modified":"2019-02-11T09:52:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T09:52:25","slug":"uk-economic-growth-slowest-since-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/uk-economic-growth-slowest-since-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"UK economic growth slowest since 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Shoppers\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/FA63\/production\/_105599046_gettyimages-1075162940.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The UK economy expanded at its slowest rate in six years in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Growth in the year was 1.4%, down from 1.8% last year and the lowest since 2012, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.<\/p>\n<p>It blamed slower factory output and car production for the slowdown, among other factors.<\/p>\n<p>It follows forecasts of even slower growth in 2019 as the UK grapples with Brexit uncertainty and a weaker global economy.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ONS, quarterly growth also slowed, falling to 0.2% in the three months to December &#8211; down from 0.6% in the three months to September. <\/p>\n<p>Head of GDP at the ONS, Rob Kent-Smith said: &#8220;GDP slowed in the last three months of the year with the manufacturing of cars and steel products seeing steep falls and construction also declining. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, services continued to grow with the health sector, management consultants and IT all doing well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-47196387\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images The UK economy expanded at its slowest rate in six years in 2018. Growth in the year was 1.4%, down from 1.8% last year and the lowest since 2012, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. It blamed slower factory output and car production for the slowdown, among other factors. It &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}