UK recovery reliant on consumers

Press Association
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Consumers will have to prop up the economic recovery over the next year if the UK is to weather the storms facing exporters, a leading forecaster has said.


Ernst & Young's ITEM Club believes that recent trends of falling inflation and rising employment levels should boost consumer demand and help the UK grow by 1.2% next year, compared with a GDP decline of 0.2% this year.
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