英国经济继80年代持续8年以平均年增长率3％的速度发展后,现进入衰退阶段。这一与西方主要国家经济衰退并发的英国的经济衰退,对英国经济的打击是沉重的。英国财政大臣拉蒙特曾认为:“这是80年代工业化国家经济高速发展后再次出现的通货膨胀的压力,现 After the economy of the United Kingdom has been growing at an average annual growth rate of 3% for eight years in the 1980s, the economy is now in a recession. The economic recession in Great Britain, which coincides with the economic downturn in the major Western countries, has hit the British economy hard. The chancellor of the United Kingdom, Montgomery Lamont, once said: "This is the pressure of inflation that has re-emerged in the industrialized countries in the 1980s.