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Economy in brief: June 2025

Alpesh Paleja CBI Deputy Chief Economist

Your monthly guide to the UK economy, giving you a monthly overview of the major trends impacting the UK's main business sectors.

27 Jun 2025, 3 min read

Spending Review doesn't change tough fiscal outlook

The Labour government's first Spending Review revealed more about its priorities for the rest of this Parliament. The public spending envelope had already been announced, so the Review didn't mean much in macroeconomic terms: we knew that the Chancellor would be allocating more to current and capital spending than the previous government. But the Review confirmed that this was heavily front-loaded in the early years of this Parliament, so that departmental spending growth is set to slow. But c

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