By Phillip Inman for The Guardian
The strong recovery on Britain’s high streets after last year’s Brexit vote appears to be over, with retail sales figures for the first quarter showing the biggest drop in purchases in the last seven years.
The Office for National Statistics said UK retail sales fell 1.4% in the first three months of 2017, the biggest quarterly fall since 2010.
Evidence of a steep decline in recent months was emphasised by the month-on-month figure, which has fallen for the last five consecutive months and declined by 1.8% in March (or by 1.5% when fuel sales were excluded).
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