Source? Everything I can find says that it is still rising, including several newspaper articles late 2016, but the only data I can find runs up to 2015, includ

Source? Everything I can find says that it is still rising, including several newspaper articles late 2016, but the only data I can find runs up to 2015, including the automatic google-chart: https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=ds22a34krhq5p_&ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=gd_pc_gdp&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country_group&idim=country:uk:de:el&idim=country_group:eu&ifdim=country_group&tstart=790300800000&tend=1421452800000&hl=en&dl=en&ind=false&icfg https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=ds22a34krhq5p... Which has UK increasing, and Germany and the EU decreasing. > and a US-UK trade deal is likely very soon. Again, source for this, other than magical wishful-thinking? Considering a) It's still illegal for the UK to make trade deals until it's out of the EU b) "Fast" is entirely based on a statement from Trump. Trump's statements are entirely meaningless because he always says exactly what the person wants to hear, regardless of complexities or whether it's actually achievable (allowing the press to trumpet the statements as fact). Trade deals are never fast because it's never a zero-sum game.