The housing secretary has decried newspapers for burying good news, but Labour’s tiny upticks in tiny numbers are hardly worth celebration, writes Emma Revell

“POV: trying to find good news in UK newspapers…”

Aren’t we all. But last week, Steve Reed made a particularly determined effort. The Labour housing secretary decided to post a video of him doing just that – bemoaning the fact that as he flicked through the papers, all he found was bad news. On he went, turning pages past the horoscopes and the crossword before announcing that, on page 42, he’d found the headline “IMF updates UK growth to third among G7 states”.

“That means the economy is growing,” Reed was delighted to tell us. “Third of the biggest seven economies in the world.”

And that is true.

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The IMF did recently change its estimate for UK growth in 2025 to 1.4 per cent, up from 1.3 per cent previously, which puts us behind only the US and Canada........

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