The UK economy’s recovery from the global financial crisis has been a long and winding road. The early stages of the revival were slow-moving, with growth hovering around the 2% figure for a number of years, but the latest figures from the International Monetary Fund, released in October, suggest that the UK economy’s recovery is now in full swing with its resurgence being most advanced in the United Kingdom and the United States among developed countries. The UK economy’s resilience is all the more impressive given the wider global economic slowdown.