Good Morning Britain was halted on Friday as Adil Ray and Kate Garraway took a moment to share some ‘breaking news’ with viewers – and the presenter branded it ‘dreadful’



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Good Morning Britain’s broadcast was abruptly halted as Adil Ray and Kate Garraway announced urgent ‘breaking news’. In the Friday episode, as the hosts were discussing the day’s major headlines, they shocked viewers with the sudden revelation of fresh economic data.

It emerged that the UK economy had seen a meagre growth of 0.1% between July and September, under the fresh leadership of the Labour government. “Dreadful,” remarked Kate while addressing the nation.

As she began speaking to the audience, Kate explained: “Good Morning, it’s just after 7 o’clock and within the last few seconds well we have some breaking news.”

She went on to reveal: “Well the UK economy grew by 0.1% so some of the predictions of 0.2% but actually it is slightly worse and that is in the three months from July and September, so that is down from 0.5% in the previous quarter according to GDP figures released by the office for National Statistics at 7am.”

Later, when introducing Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride to the programme, Kate candidly admitted the disappointing nature of these figures, commenting: “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.”, reports the Mirror.

To which Stride retorted: “Well no actually we handed over we had the fastest growth in the G7 and if you look at this recent number..”

As he tried to conclude his point, Kate interjected, highlighting: “But the numbers were going down is what I’m saying or are you disputing that? ” The Shadow Chancellor responded: “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% 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.”