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Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak
BRITAIN is in its worst recession for 65 years due to the Covid-19 crisis, while also holding the record for the most deaths in Europe during the pandemic, it was confirmed today.
Between April and June the economy contracted by a record 20.4 per cent, partly as a result of mis-timed lockdown measures put in place too late to slow the spread of the virus.
The quarterly drop is the worst since records began in 1955, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
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