Why the UK’s trade deficit makes household bills so vulnerable to global shocks
- Written by Erhan Kilincarslan, Reader in Accounting and Finance, University of Huddersfield
Anderson Leung/ShutterstockThe UK’s trade deficit of goods is the widest it has ever been. In 2025, the country spent £248.3 billion more on things than it sold to the rest of the world.
This is not just some abstract number, of interest only to markets and economists. The UK’s trade deficit has practical consequences which help...
