UK GDP rose 7.5% in 2021 compared with the previous year which was the strongest single years GDP growth going back to the second world war. However, this growth number was off the back of a 2020 number which was severely depressed because of the pandemic measures put in place. The bank of England said it expected the impact from Omicron to be erased by March this year, but that inflation was posing an ever-greater risk to household finances which has pulled forward expectations of another quarter point hike in March for the BofE