JUST a few weeks ago David Davis described the UK as the fifth largest economy in the world. Not any more however, as his colleague Philip Hammond confessed in his Budget speech. France has now replaced Britain in that position, with India coming up fast on the outside.
Is it too much to expect our key representatives in Brexit talks to get their basic facts right? It is all beginning to look horribly amateurish.
Peter Craigie
Edinburgh
THERE is a ritual in Westminster called Prime Minister’s Questions. It should be renamed Prime Minister’s No Answers. Mrs May will always win the ensuing battle of “insult tennis” because Jeremy Corbyn is either too much of a gentleman or ill-equipped to play the game to win.
And when the questions were opened up to the floor no-one challenged the PM on the repeated assertion that the Tory Government had created three million jobs in the last seven years.
It was business that created jobs, aided and abetted by the Government turning a blind eye to zero-hours contracts.
Mike Underwood
Linlithgow
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