Does the minister agree that it is a sign of increasing desperation from the Tories that they consider it a cause for celebration that the UK economy has stopped shrinking, when growth is still lower than it is in Europe, Asia, the Americas or Australia, as we continue to pay the price of Brexit and Tory economic incompetence? The latest figures show that, despite a small increase in the latest quarter, UK GDP per person is down by 0.7 per cent on the past year.