UK economic growth slows sharply in February
A sharp fall in car and computer production weighed on the UK’s economic expansion. …
Alpesh Paleja, lead economist at the CBI, a business lobby group, said: “Near-term challenges to the outlook have ramped up since, with a growing cost-of-living crunch set to weigh on growth,” he said. “Businesses are also grappling with headwinds from the Ukraine conflict, which is exacerbating cost pressures and supply chain disruption.”