This via Reuters on an index of consumer confidence produced by polling firm YouGov
- Says it "fell back to just above levels last seen just after last year's shock referendum decision to leave the European Union"
- "Our preliminary assessment is that economic growth will fall sharply over the coming months and the country will only be saved from recession by strong international trade," said Douglas McWilliams, deputy chairman at the Centre for Economics and Business Research which produces the index with YouGov.
- "... the real cause for alarm will be the cooling of the property market, as this is one of the key things that has propped up consumer confidence over the past few years," Stephen Harmston, head of YouGov Reports, said.
- YouGov's conclusions were based on data collected between June 9 and June 21.
And, more from the same Reuters report:
- Mortgage lender Nationwide has reported three successive monthly falls in house prices for the first time since 2009,
- Halifax says annual growth is the lowest since 2013
- There was some more encouraging economic news on Tuesday from jobs website Adzuna. For the past two years it has reported year-on-year declines in available wages. May's decline of 1.0 percent was the joint-smallest since July 2015.
