England s Euros success risks baby bust telegraph.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from telegraph.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Baby boom or baby bust?
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If you’d asked me around a year ago where I saw myself now, I’d have answered, half-joking, ‘with a baby’. That is where my life was going. My fiancé and I had started having fertility treatment. Having tried to have children for a year without success, we had been to see a Harley Street specialist and I had begun taking medication. As we explored the first steps towards IVF, I had begun picturing motherhood.
A year later, that all seems pure fantasy. When clinics shut last March, all fertility treatment ceased. Then I split from my fiancé. In the months that followed, as meeting someone during lockdown became increasingly difficult, motherhood slipped into feeling impossible.
Boomer generation s retirement will hurt economy
Lower immigration will also contribute to an economic slowdown that threatens to overshadow this decade
5 April 2021 • 7:02pm
Britain’s ageing population and lower rates of immigration will put the brakes of economic growth in the 2020s, City forecasters have warned.
The supply of labour will be curbed by the Boomer generation retiring and an immigration clampdown, halving the growth rate in the workforce, according to Pantheon Macroeconomics.
Growth in workers will slump to an average annual rate of just 0.3pc over the next five years, down from 0.8pc in the second half of the 2010s, it predicted.
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