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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the Week

29 April 2023

9:00 AM

29 April 2023

9:00 AM

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‘China is carrying out the biggest military build-up in peacetime history,’ warned James Cleverly, the Foreign Secretary, in his Mansion House speech, but said ‘no significant global problem’ could be ‘solved without China’. The government borrowed £139.2 billion last year, £13 billion less than expected, bringing public debt to 99.6

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