Love me Tinder...secret to true romance
Thisvalentine’s Day, Global Britain is embracing its friends and family around the world.
We are using our freedom as an independent trading nation to forge closer bonds with likeminded democracies, driven by our shared love for freedom, innovation and preserving our natural environment.
Last week, I was in India marking a new chapter of the UK’S national story, deepening our relationship – worth £23billion a year of trade in 2019 – with the world’s biggest democracy.
There are few markets around the world that offer greater potential than India.
This huge market of 1.4 billion people is already emerging as the world’s fastest-growing major economy and is expected to become the second biggest in the world by 2050, making it a crucial long-term trading partner.
I am proud to be pushing on with our Enhancedtrade
Partnership, which will secure more jobs as we work towards a full free trade agreement.
This comes as we build our network of advanced trade deals from the Americas to the Indopacific. It now spans from South Korea to South Africa, with our negotiators striking agreements so far to cover 64 countries plus the EU – securing £889billion in trade.
We will build on this by pursuing gold standard agreements with our close allies such as Australia and New Zealand. And I look forward to working with the United States’ newly-appointed trade negotiator, Katherinetai, to take our trading relationship to the next level.
We are realising the vision of a Global Britain – championing free trade abroad and bringing home prosperity – by seizing the opportunities available to us only as an independent trading nation.
This year, we are applying to join the most dynamic trading area on Earth: the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans-pacific Partnership.
This high-standards partnership will open near £9trillion worth of global economies to our exporters.
We are stepping up to lead the fight for free and fair trade as president of the G7, and we will also be rallying our allies as hosts of COP26 in Glasgow in support of clean growth.
Together, we will create a greener and more prosperous future.
Alongside fast-growing partners like India, we are paving the way to prosperity. This is Global Britain in action: beating back Covid with our friends and family worldwide so we can build back better and stronger.
PEOPLE looking for one night stands on dating apps are most likely to find true love and marriage, says a survey.
As lovers exchange Valentine gifts today, the poll of 2,000 young unmarried adults reveals that more people are finding love online than anywhere else.
The poll shows 29 per cent have met their partner through a dating app, 24 per cent in a domestic setting, 21 per cent at university or college, 15 per cent in another social setting such as a bar or club and just 11 per cent at work.
But surprisingly, the survey also reveals that young adults are more likely to find true love using apps most associated with casual sex, such as Tinder and Grindr.
The One Poll survey for the Marriage Foundation shows 89 per cent of 18 to 30-year-olds who were in a relationship after using one of those apps hoped to get married to their partner.
They come ahead of apps which cater for those looking for longterm relationships, such as eharmony and match.com, which perform well, with 84 per cent wanting to marry the partner they had found. Harry Benson, the Marriage Foundation’s research director, said: “These counter-intuitive results put a sword to the lie that young people have fallen out of love with the idea of marrying – quite the contrary.
“It also suggests young people are perhaps less promiscuous than many of us imagine, with many looking for reliable love in the form of a stable and long-term relationship, just like everybody else.”
Sir Paul Coleridge, Marriage Foundation founder, said the rise of online dating apps confirmed that men and women are still seeking stable relationships, even if they are using new methods.
He said every survey it had commissioned “always confirms the almost universal finding that both men and women want, as a priority in their lives, stable and reliable love and preferably marriage”.
He continued: “To fulfil
this ambition young people are increasingly turning to dating and hook-up sites as a means of finding Mr or Mrs Right.”
And he concluded: “These findings are good news for marriage.
“During this time of national stress and strain, most married couples have weathered the Covid storm reasonably well, with fewer considering divorce and substantially lower levels of regret.
“Importantly, young people get this, which is why they overwhelmingly want to get married.”
‘Young people still
want marriage’