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Omicron and decline in trade threaten growth

Britain’s economy heads into the new year weighed down by a decline in trade and falling business and consumer confidence.

Exports were 14% below their 2018 average level in the third quarter of 2021, and there are many economists who doubt sales of UK products abroad will

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