The UK’s mid-market's typically strong confidence in both economic outlook and expectations for their own revenue growth has faltered, as worries about increasing business costs weigh heavily with business leaders at the close of 2025. This is according to the December results from the Grant Thornton UK Business Outlook Tracker, a rolling survey of over 600 UK mid-market decision makers.
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