Your September guide to the UK economy, giving you a monthly overview of the major trends impacting the UK's main business sectors.
It’s the economy Jim, but not as we know it…
We’ve just had a fresh bit of history-re-writing from the ONS, and it’s so interesting that the ONS have reported themselves to their own regulator. Revisions occur typically because new data is incorporated, and because methodologies improve over time – revisions due to error are considerably rarer. And that’s the case this time, plus the large swings in the economy during covid were likely to entail larger revisions to match. Getting back to t