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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Richard Partington Economics correspondent

Boris Johnson has left the UK economy in a parlous state

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak prepare for a game of fusball.
Boris Johnson believed more in state intervention and the power of public spending than his chancellor, Rishi Sunak. Photograph: Heathcliff O’Malley/The Daily Telegraph/PA

Boris Johnson entered Downing Street in July 2019 with a promise. The doubters, doomsters and gloomsters were going to get it wrong again: his leadership would make Brexit a success, re-igniting an economy stalled by the divisions over Europe.

Three years later, almost to the day, he prepares to leave with the country reeling from a political implosion of his own making, and an economy teetering on the brink of recession.

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