‘BUNGLING’ BORIS OUTPERFORMS EU

AS Britain muddled through Brexit, Boris Johnson and his bungling government were characterised as clown-like. But are they going to have the last laugh?

The UK has stolen a march on Europe by rolling out its vaccines four times quicker.

And now a new economic report warns the eurozone is heading for a double-dip recession as the UK rides off into a promising future free of Covid-19 restrictions.

Research group IHS Markit said output in the single currency bloc was on course to fall over the first three months this year as the slow rollout of vaccines prolongs economic misery across the region.

That would follow a 0.6 per cent contraction in the final quarter of last year – plunging the region back into recession.

Meanwhile analysts said the UK can look forward to ‘a summer of roaring trade’ as the rollout of the vaccine leads to an easing of restrictions.