GDP quarter-on-quarter growth

Con

Labour

Coalition

20%

1956-57

Suez crisis

1990s

Economic

downturn

and Black

Wednesday

10

1973-75

Oil price

shock

0

1979-81

Winter of

discontent

2008

Global financial

crisis

-10

1984-85

Miners' strike

2019 Covid-19

pandemic begins

-20

1960

1980

2000

2020

Conservative

Labour

Coalition

20%

1973-75

Oil price

shock

2008

Global

financial

crisis

2019

Covid-19

pandemic

begins

1984-85

Miners'

strike

10

0

-10

1956-57

Suez crisis

1979-81

Winter of

discontent

1990s

Economic downturn

and Black Wednesday

-20

1960

1980

2000

2020