Middle East conflict will damage UK’s economy ‘more than any other’

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development says UK economy will grow by just 0.7% this year The conflict in the Middle East will damage the UK’s economy more than any other industrialised nation, according to analysis by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which warned over rising inflation. In the first major assessment by a leading international thinktank of the economic impact from the attack on Iran, the OECD said the UK economy would grow by just 0.7