record, according to the met office, as storm babet battered the coast and floods engulfed towns like catcliffeons why the economy shrank faster than most economists thought it would. as shoppers cowered indoors and across the economy, a little less was spent. in the month of october, the value of goods and services produced, also known as gross domestic product, shrank by 0.3%, a smaller drop than some in the pandemic, seen here in the red bars. and the monthly figures come with a health warning. they wobble around. but over three months, there was no growth at all. that matches the experience of companies like this used car dealer in winchester. business boomed in the pandemic as a shortage of microchips led to a shortage of new cars. but that means fewer nearly new cars now keeping prices high. and most buy on credit, which costs about £100 a month more since interest rates started rising. in 2005, we had a £5 billion turnover. last year we had a £41 million turnover. so we have grown the business quite considerably, but that growth has slowed down over the last couple of years, and that's p