London — Britain's economy shrank by the most since 1979 in early 2020 as households slashed their spending, according to official data that included the first few days of the coronavirus lockdown.
GDP dropped by a quarterly 2.2% from January to March, the office for national statistics said. That was below the median forecast in a Reuters poll of economists for a fall of 2.0%...
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