Weekly Economic Briefings > Uk Weekly Economic Briefing

This weeks mix of official data for July and surveys for August suggested that the economy is on track to eke out modest growth in GDP in Q3.The Prime Minister has played down the trade-offs likely to be required to make Brexit a reality, but this approach surely has a very limited shelf-life. We still see a hard Brexit as the most likely outcome, though our modelling suggests that this might not be as damaging to UK trade as some fear.