GfK’s UK Consumer Confidence Index has decreased three points to 1 in May. All of the five measures used to calculate the index saw decreases this month. Nick Moon, Managing Director of Social Research at GfK, says: “In the short term, this suggests that despite rewarding them with a majority in the House of Commons, the public are not too confident about economic life under the Conservatives, given that almost all of the fieldwork for this month was conducted after the election, and the Index stands three points lower than last month. In the longer term, we seem to be in another of the periods of stasis that the ... (full story)