UK GDP figures for November are “much stronger than expected”, wealth managers have claimed.

The economy grew 0.9 percent month-on-month in November, demonstrating it was “in good shape” as it entered the latest pandemic wave, Dean Turner, an economist at UBS Global Wealth Management, argued.

This was significantly ahead of expectations of a 0.4 percent increase and is also an increase from the 0.1 percent increase recorded in October.

For the first time, GDP is now ...