GDP revisions could lower UK growth by up to 1%

The recent economic history of the UK is about to be rewritten, and it could make gloomy reading when National Statistics begins using a new method for calculating GDP growth from September. Potentially large downward revisions are expected from the switch to annual chain linking.

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