The claims come as Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government begins a reset of the UK’s relationship with the European Union following their victory in the general election.
The prime minister is set to host European leaders at the European Political Council at Blenheim Palace tomorrow just days after his new EU relations minister Nick Thomas-Symonds went to Brussels to start talks on a new Brexit deal. But the urgency of the problem appears to have been highlighted in the latest IMF projections.
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