The country has one of the lowest growth rates in Europe, has crashed exports to its biggest market, maintained imports by simply waiving customs checks opening up the domestic market for all kinds of fraud, has signed one-sided free trade deals for the newspaper headlines, introducing competition to those domestic producers for no equivalent gain for exporters, whilst failing to sign a symbolically important free trade deal with US - despite the special relationship - and also deciding to escalate hostilities with China, the world second largest economy, as a 'pick me' demonstration of loyalty to the aforementioned US.

No need to mention pandemic mismanagement which managed to put billions onto the national debt, crashing multiple business sectors with its confused lockdown vs let it rip oscillations and still end up with one of the highest infection rates / case fatality rates from Covid-19. Latest figures from IFS additionally suggest up to 500,000 UK workers are 'economically inactive' due to long covid, a massive loss of workers, increasing the cost of employment for those employers who do need to hire.

The way to treat UK prognostications on economic matters is 'precisely the opposite'