ITV Good Morning Britain's Kate Garraway halts show to issue 'dreadful' breaking news
In a dramatic twist on Friday's Good Morning Britain, presenters Adil Ray and Kate Garraway brought the breakfast broadcast to a halt with some startling "breaking news".
The scene was set as Adil and his co-host Kate dived into the morning's headline-grabbing stories when they suddenly shifted gears, catching audiences off guard with an urgent update.
Kate said that the British economy's growth of 0.1 percent between July and September marked the initial quarter under the Labour government. Kate didn't mince words, describing the economic situation as "dreadful".
Addressing the audience, Kate began: "Good Morning, it's just after 7 o'clock and within the last few seconds we have some breaking news," reports the Mirror.
She went on: "Well the UK economy grew by 0.1 percent so some of the predictions of 0.2 percent but actually it is slightly worse and that is in the three months from July and September, so that is down from 0.5 percent in the previous quarter according to GDP figures released by the office for National Statistics at 7am."
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Kate Garraway and Adil Ray hosted Friday's GMB (Image: ITV)As Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride joined the programme, Kate framed the gruelling conversation ahead: "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."
Mr Stride responded: "Well no actually we handed over we had the fastest growth in the G7 and if you look at this recent number.."
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The Shadow Chancellor responded with an explanation: "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 percent increase is actually about half to 1/7 of the corresponding figures for economies like France, Germany and the United States."
He further commented: "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."
ITV Good Morning Britain's Kate Garraway halts show to issue 'dreadful' breaking news
ITV Good Morning Britain's Kate Garraway halts show to issue 'dreadful' breaking news
ITV Good Morning Britain's Kate Garraway halts show to issue 'dreadful' breaking news
ITV Good Morning Britain's Kate Garraway halts show to issue 'dreadful' breaking news
ITV Good Morning Britain's Kate Garraway halts show to issue 'dreadful' breaking news
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