The economy, which had grown 0.4% in January, suffered, among other things, the following month “mild weather for the season that caused a drop in electricity and gas consumption,” according to the National Statistics Office.
Britain’s gross domestic product (GDP) stagnated in February, stagnating less than economists had expected with a small rise, weighed down in particular by the wage strikes rocking the country, the Office for National Statistics announced on Thursday ( ONS).
The economy, which had grown 0.4% in January, suffered the following month “due to strikes by workers and teachers in the public sector” over wages and “due to the mild climate of the season that caused a drop in consumption of electricity and gas”, Darren Morgan. , director of economic statistics at the ONS, noted on Twitter.
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