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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.

I'm Natasha Faros and I'm joined by Katie Balls and Kate Andrews is back with us because

there's been some GDP figures revealed this morning. Kate, tell us the story.

So we have two sets of figures this morning. One is the quarterly update which saw the UK economy

grow by a measly 0.1%, but it did grow in the first quarter of this year. But we also got the

monthly update and following zero growth in February, which has not been revised, that stayed the same.

We have found out that the economy contracted by 0.3% in March. So it was really strong

January figures that got us to this 0.1% growth in key one. And a very clear narrative here is

emerging, which is essentially that virtually no growth is better than having a contraction

or a recession, but it's still not very good news. Nobody wants to be in a formal recession and

today's key one update dodges that yet again, that is on the surface very good news. But if you

look at that breakdown of the months and you look at the direction, this is all going in, consumer

facing services took a 0.8% hit and this is all evidence that inflation is really starting to

catch up with people that hit to real wages and also quite possibly that those interest rate

hikes are starting to be felt. Those can take a longer time to work their way into the system,

but no doubt they are now starting to have some impact. Let's not forget that economic growth

is one of the government's five pledges for the year. They kept that very vague at the start of

January. They just said there would be some economic growth. And I think this will be interesting

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