If two consecutive quarters of declining GDP is most economists’ definition of a recession; how come only one quarter’s growth at 0.1% seems good enough to mark the end of it?

Regardless of the semantics; yesterday’s announcement of the provisional return of economic growth does illustrate the remaining fragility of the UK economy with a “double dip” back into recession still a real possibility.

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