As British and European Union negotiators head into the last round of talks, UK might end the post-Brexit transition period without a free trade agreement in place.
Elected just 6 months ago, Johnson, who promised to level up 'forgotten' parts of the UK before the virus struck, will likely focus on reasserting his broader political mission.
Johnson will face a volley of questions from senior members of Parliament over his handling of the Covid crisis as well as his relationship with Cummings.
The Bank of England has predicted that a three-month lockdown could lead to a 14% slump this year — the deepest recession since the early 18th century.
Support is slipping for Johnson as UK recorded the world's second-highest number of deaths after a week of confused messages over relaxing the lockdown.
The fall was the biggest since the financial crisis of 2008 and included a contraction of 5.8 per cent in the March GDP alone, the biggest monthly fall on record.
It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
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