UK Economy Grew More Than Thought at End of Miserable 2020

UK Economy Grew More Than Thought at End of Miserable 2020
Commuters walk across the London Bridge during the morning rush hour, amid an outbreak of the CCP virus, in London on Sept. 17, 2020. Hannah McKay/Reuters
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LONDON—Britain’s coronavirus-hammered economy grew more quickly than previously thought in the final three months of last year but still shrank by the most in more than three centuries in 2020 as a whole, official data showed on Wednesday.

Gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 1.3 percent between October and December last year from the previous three-month period, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.