Retail sales jumped 0.7% last month beating expectations21 Jul 2023 07:31
Retail sales grew 0.7% last month beating expectations, latest official data shows.
It follows a rise of 0.1% in May, a figure which the Office for National Statistics had revised down from 0.3%.
Experts had forecast a rise of 0.2% in June, according to an average supplied by Pantheon Macroeconomics.