Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, including the UK GDP report for September, and the third quarter of 2025.
Although the Jaguar Land Rover attack clearly caused a drop in activity (its UK factories were closed through September), there has also been a wider slowdown.
This chart show how the rolling three month estimate of growth has weakened since the spring:
“Across the quarter as a whole manufacturing drove the weakness in production. There was a particularly marked fall in car production in September, reflecting the impact of a cyber incident, as well as a decline in the often-erratic pharmaceutical industry.
