Let me take you to a place where the political terrain is so radically different as to be idyllic. Already I hear you rumbling like a famished teen at Nando’s: where is this paradise? No, my friend: it is the UK in 2020. Practically the first thing he did on becoming prime minister in 2007 was vow to build an extra 3m homes by 2020. At £675bn, today’s export total is stuck far below his target while the UK’s trade deficit continues to balloon.

Source: The Guardian January 09, 2020 06:00 UTC