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Britain’s not in recession – but government is not off the hook; RMT boss should resign instead of striking; remembrance day 2019

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Today the Office for National Statistics says GDP grew by 0.3 percent in the third quarter of the year. But that’s still the lowest since 2010 – and there are plenty of reasons for concern about what comes next. Our political editor Joe Murphy joins us to tell us more.

Next month, RMT union members will hold strike action on South Western Railway services into Waterloo for 27 days. They says it’s about safety. But a video of one its bosses Steve Hedley making allegedly anti-semitic remarks has re-emerged. Julian Glover asks why the union’s not taking action about that.

On Armistice Day 2019, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn broke off from campaigning to observe two minutes silence for the fallen. Mr Corbyn was in Islington, Mr Johnson in Wolverhampton. And the Standard believe’s the Queen’s emotion at the Cenetaph on Sunday speaks for us all.

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