Westminster's antics keep investors waiting for much-anticipated 'Brexit bounce'

Will they still trust the current official timeline to leave?

"Boris boost as economy bounces back", boomed the Daily Express's front page, while The Guardian described the UK's narrow avoidance of a technical recession as "cold comfort amid Brexit cloud".

But the BBC probably displayed the most sober coverage of the Office for National Statistics' most recent data, pointing to the bigger picture by highlighting UK growth is at its 'slowest in almost a decade'. News that GDP grew by 0.3% in the third quarter, following a 0.2% fall in the previous four months, proved divisive and was greeted as either a success or representative of ongoing failure depending on commentators' politics. Inflation falling to a three-year low, as also reported last week, will more likely be universally welcome news for consumers. Indeed, inflation remainin...