OPINION Evening Standard Comment Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak must be on the same side to fix the economy

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The economic news is worse than expected. The economy shrank by 0.1 per cent in March, as hard-stretched consumers began reining in their spending. Ominously, the contraction came before April’s 54 per cent increase in the energy price cap and May’s interest rate rise.

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