London’s Economy Today editorial – March 2025 March 27th, 2025 by Daryl Rozario, Gordon Douglass, Jubair Ahmed, and Sixia Zhang Chancellor delivers Spring Statement On 26 March the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, delivered the 2025 Spring Statement which had a heavy focus on improving government efficiency and increasing spending on defence. The Chancellor thus announced the creation of a £3.25bn Transformation Fund “to support the fundamental reform of public services, seize the opportunities…
London’s Economy Today editorial – February 2025 February 27th, 2025 by Daryl Rozario, Ali Ögcem, Gordon Douglass, and Sixia Zhang UK sees slow growth at the end of 2024 The UK economy grew in the final quarter of 2024 according to data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in February 2025. This showed that real GDP is estimated to have grown by 0.1% in Q4 2024, after not growing at all in Q3…