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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tries free-market recipe to fix Britain's woes
Together with other factors, such as increased trade barriers with Europe after Brexit, the British economy is 5.5% smaller than it otherwise would have been, according to estimates by John Springford, the deputy director at the Center for European Reform think tank in London.