'Who wudda thunk it?' Andrew Neil mocks Brexit doom-mongers as UK outperforms 'EU giants'
Previous estimates were far more gloomy, claiming the economy had shrunk by 1.2 percent since the pandemic.
Miserable UK doommongers who claim that the UK has been the worst-performing economy since the pandemic have been slammed after new figures revealed the country is outperforming Europe's economic powerhouses.
Journalist Andrew Neil posted on X (Twitter) pointing out the UK had outperformed Europe’s three biggest economies.
Mr Neil’s tweet comes after revised figures from the ONS (Office for National Statistics) showed that the UK’s economy had regained its post-pandemic size in 2021.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt hailed the news on Friday after the data showed just how strongly the country was bouncing back from the damage done by Covid-19.
Before revised figures were released, Britain was believed to be the only G7 economy that was smaller than it was before the pandemic.
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Following the news, Mr Neil tweeted: “You will have read many times on Twitter that the UK economy has been the worst performing among the G7’s most prosperous nations since the pandemic.
“Said without caveat and often gleefully by a Twitter mob that revels in doing the country down.
“Well, now that the official stats have been revised independently, an up-to-date G7 league table shows this: the UK lagged behind only the fast-growing North American economies of the USA and Canada.
“It has outperformed Europe’s three major economies — Germany, France and Italy, as well as Japan — since the pandemic. Who wudda thunk it?!” Express.
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