So with 51 days to go to the official Brexit Day, what is happening to the UK economy?
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I thought I'd take this opportunity to give you a short update on some of the data coming out of the Office for National Statistics about the UK economy.
You know, the despite Brexit bit.
Firstly, our balance of trade.
The total UK trade deficit, that's both goods and services, narrowed by £14.9 billion to just £2.9 billion in the three months to July.
Now, let's point out that this is largely due to a hefty drop in the imports of goods now that the Project Fear warehouses are all full and imports will get back to their normal levels over the next few months.
On GDP, after the contraction we saw of 0.2% in the three months to June together with warnings of an impending recession, the three months to July saw GDP remain steady at zero growth.
But in July alone, the UK economy saw GDP rise by 0.3%.
And on employment, the UK employment rate in the three months to July was 76.1% the joint highest on record. And at 3.8% the unemployment rate is lower than the same time last year.
And the economic inactivity rate has also fallen to 20.8%, once again lower than last year.
Overall the Labour Force Survey estimates that there were 32.78 million people aged 16 and over in employment - that's 369,000 more than last year.
And the latest inflation figures are for July and CPI was 2.1%, just about on the government target of 2%
And let's look at wages shall we?
On this the ONS says:
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