UK economy came to a halt in the three months leading up to the end of October

Official data show that the UK economy came to a halt in the three months leading up to the end of October. The political parties that run in the high-stakes general election on Thursday promise to fix this— but their legislative effect is far from certain.

"It's hard to say that the economy would do well under any serious economic model," Paul Johnson, president of the independent Fiscal Studies Institute, told r....