Good Morning Britain’s live broadcast was halted as Adil Ray and Kate Garraway stopped to deliver some ‘breaking news’. In Friday’s instalment of the popular ITV breakfast programme, Adil and his co-host Kate were back on our screens with the morning’s leading stories.
Yet, it was an unexpected announcement that caught viewers off guard when the pair shared some ‘breaking news’. The British economy’s growth of 0.1% between July and September, marking the initial months of the Labour government, was disclosed.
Kate conceded that the figures were ‘dreadful’, reports the Mirror.
Addressing the audience at home, Kate began: “Good Morning, it’s just after 7 o’clock and within the last few seconds well we have some breaking news.”
She went on: “Well the UK economy grew by 0.1% so some of the predictions of 0.2% but actually it is slightly worse and that is in the three months from July and September, so that is down from 0.5% in the previous quarter according to GDP figures released by the office for National Statistics at 7am.”
Welcoming Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride to the show, Kate later confessed: “Before we unleash you on how dreadful these gross figures are, it should be pointed out that previously it was 0.7 then 0.5 and now 0.1 so the gross was on the slide already under your government.”
Stride responded: “Well no actually we handed over we had the fastest growth in the G7 and if you look at this recent number..”
Kate interjected during the conversation to emphasise her point: “But the numbers were going down is what I’m saying or are you disputing that?”
To which the Shadow Chancellor responded with an explanation, stating: “Well the point is when we handed over an economy that was growing at the fastest rate in the G7 so what we are seeing in these numbers of 0.1% increase is actually about half to 1/7 of the corresponding figures for economies like France, Germany and the United States.”
He further commented on the situation, adding: “The big question is why has this happened, well a big part of that is the government on first coming to office decided to go ahead with high increase in taxes so they spent that period in July to September actually saying how many problems they were and why they had to make tough decisions and ignoring the fact that we had a high growth.”
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