Did the UK economy contract in the second quarter?

Did the UK economy shrink in the second quarter?

The UK economy is expected to contract marginally in the second quarter as it heads for a recession of a scale not seen since the 1990s later this year.

Economists polled by Reuters forecast a report on Friday to show output contracted 0.2 per cent between the first and the second quarter. Gross domestic product is forecast to have shrunk by 1.3 per cent between May and June, affected by…