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Trump’s election as president in the US had shown that electorates are now no longer voting on purely economic grounds, Watt said: “Right. But it’s sad. Politicians are talking about lots of things, but not focused on the economy and its implications. And yet without a strong economy there’s less tax for the politicians to spend.”

It is well known that the UK economy was surprisingly resilient in the six months or so after the Brexit vote, confounding many doomsters. But in recent months, including last week’s slowing UK GDP figures for the first quarter of 2017, a shadow has been cast on the general economic prospects. The services sector has taken a hit as consumers have been squeezed by stagnant earnings growth