U.K. economy returned to modest growth in August; GDP rose just 0.1% By Investing.com

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : British finance minister Rachel Reeves is set to announce her latest decisions on taxation next month, and, despite raising taxes by about £40 billion in her first budget last year, faces having to find around £22 billion to meet her rule that day-to-day spending is in balance with tax revenues by the end of the decade, according to estimates by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
45% : Increases in taxation threaten cutting off any meager growth the country has to offer, and could complicate the Bank of England's monetary policy decisions at its meeting early next month.
44% : Inflation remains high, as do interest rates, as the Bank of England awaits assurance that inflation is under control before cutting further," said Michael Field, chief equity strategist at Morningstar.
41% : Her options on November 26 are complicated by her promise to voters in the 2024 election that she would not raise the main rates of taxation on them.

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