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UK Weekly: Chancellor won’t “kickstart” growth, but LT outlook rosy

While we doubt the Chancellor’s plans to “kickstart economic growth” will lift the economy out of its recent malaise in the coming quarters, at the margin her strategy of growing the supply side of the economy may help reset the narrative around growth. But it will probably be the progress businesses make on adopting Artificial Intelligence, rather than anything the government intends to do, that will make a real difference to the UK’s long-term economic prospects.

We’ll be discussing the outlook for UK interest rates in a 20-minute online Drop-In at 3pm GMT on Thursday 6th February. (Register here.)

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