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Will Brexit uncertainty finally bite in 2018?

A key reason why most forecasters were too gloomy about the UK economy last year was that Brexit-related uncertainty was much less damaging than they had expected. Judging by the gloominess of consensus forecasts for this year, they are about to make the same mistake again.

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