The prime minister has promised to act fast to boost spending on infrastructure in the face of the looming recession, as he returned to his manifesto pledge of 'levelling up' the UK in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis. Delivering a major speech in Dudley College of Technology, at a podium emblazoned with the slogan 'build, build, build', Johnson claimed his government would tackle the long-term problems in the UK economy revealed by the 'lightning flash' of the pandemic
Boris Johnson vows to act fast to fix economy in wake of coronavirus
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