{"id":34,"date":"2009-01-23T12:18:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T17:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.commerciallawinternational.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2009-01-23T12:18:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T17:18:26","slug":"its-official-the-uk-in-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commerciallawinternational.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official, The UK In Recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers are out\u00a0from the Office for National Statistics and they are not pretty: the UK economy shrank by 1.5% in\u00a0the last three months of 2008.<\/p>\n<p>This contraction was worse than expected and is\u00a0even deeper than the last recession of the early 90&#8217;s. In fact it was the biggest fall in more than 28 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, is urging the public to give the economic policies of the\u00a0government time to work.\u00a0However, so far he has\u00a0decline to publicly restate his previous forcast\u00a0of an economic\u00a0recovery\u00a0later in 2009.<\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers are out\u00a0from the Office for National Statistics and they are not pretty: the UK economy shrank by 1.5% in\u00a0the last three months of 2008. This contraction was worse than expected and is\u00a0even deeper than the last recession of the early 90&#8217;s. In fact it was the biggest fall in more than 28 years. The Chancellor of the Exchequer,&hellip; <span class=\"read-more-span\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commerciallawinternational.com\/?p=34\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s Official, The UK In Recession&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75,77,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-government-policy","category-public-policy"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8VWXZ-y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commerciallawinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commerciallawinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commerciallawinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commerciallawinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commerciallawinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.commerciallawinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.commerciallawinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.commerciallawinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commerciallawinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.commerciallawinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}