The contraction in real GDP in August won’t ease the jitters in the financial markets at a time when the recent behaviour of politicians and the words of the Governor of the Bank of England are making the markets nervous. We think the dual drag from high inflation and rising interest rates means the economy will fall into a recession involving a peak-to-trough contraction in GDP of 2%.
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