GMB presenters Kate Garraway and Adil Ray halt show to share 'dreadful' news

During a live broadcast of Good Morning Britain, presenters Adil Ray and Kate Garraway were in the midst of discussing the day's top stories when they had to interrupt the programme with urgent 'breaking news'. The startling update came on Friday's episode, leaving viewers surprised as the hosts unveiled new economic figures.

The UK economy experienced a slight uptick of 0.1% from July to September, a period marked by the Labour government's leadership. Kate Garraway described the situation as "Dreadful," while addressing the nation.

Kate informed viewers: "Good Morning, it's just after 7 o'clock and within the last few seconds well we have some breaking news."

She continued with the details: "Well the UK economy grew by 0.1% so some of the predictions of 0.2% but actually it is slightly worse and that is in the three months from July and September, so that is down from 0.5% in the previous quarter according to GDP figures released by the office for National Statistics at 7am."

Later in the show, when Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride joined them, Kate didn't hold back on expressing her concerns about the disappointing economic data, saying: "Before we unleash you on how dreadful these gross figures are, it should be pointed out that previously it was 0.7 then 0.5 and now 0.1 so the gross was on the slide already under your government.", reports Nottinghamshire Live.

Stride responded to this comment, defending his position: "Well no actually we handed over we had the fastest growth in the G7 and if you look at this recent number.."

Kate interjected as he was wrapping up his point, emphasising: "But the numbers were going down is what I'm saying or are you disputing that? " The Shadow Chancellor retorted: "Well the point is when we handed over an economy that was growing at the fastest rate in the G7 so what we are seeing in these numbers of 0.1% increase is actually about half to 1/7 of the corresponding figures for economies like France, Germany and the United States."

He further remarked: "The big question is why has this happened, well a big part of that is the government on first coming to office decided to go ahead with high increase in taxes so they spent that period in July to September actually saying how many problems they were and why they had to make tough decisions and ignoring the fact that we had a high growth."