President Macron came to London yesterday, to meet Prime Minister Johnson, mark 80 years since General de Gaulle’s call to arms and thank London for its friendship over the decades.
Both leaders are being heavily criticised at home for their failure to match the success against Covid-19 of countries like Germany. After talks between the two there was no announcement on an end to the mutual quarantine arrangements (although France’s quarantine of new arrivals is voluntary), and the British PM reiterated that there would be no request for an extension to the transition period.
On the economy, the Bank of England held interest rates steady and suggested that the collapse in the economy in the first half of 2020 is certainly historic and potentially catastrophic for unemployment, but may not be as deep as first feared.
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