Sufficient data worldwide now exists to conclude that, to date, the UK has the highest rate of excess deaths in the Coronavirus pandemic in the world
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Chris Giles
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Chris Giles
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Financial Times Economics Commentator; Honorary Professor of Practice, UCL Policy Lab Sign up to my newsletter in the link below
Joined May 2011
- This is......bad
- NEW: The excess UK deaths linked to coronavirus are likely to be around 41,000 as of yesterday, not the 17,337 of the hospital deaths announcements Here is the explanation for that estimate, which I will update daily 1/
- Guess which type of school most fiddled A-level grades when they graded themselves? Hint: the colour in the chart A* edition 1/
- Welcome to the UK Border Force just detained my 17-yr old daughter at the Gard du Nord because she was travelling on her German passport (she's a dual national) I am furious
- One thing @KwasiKwarteng said on the radio this morning "No chancellor has trailed their Budget with the OBR before announcing it..." This is false - chancellors always do this so OBR can produce a forecast Ask @George_Osborne @PhilipHammondUK @sajidjavid @RishiSunak
- The @FinancialTimes never* calls for heads to roll in editorials. It is a policy* ft.com/content/2b2176… * broken today
- Some maths A 5% public sector wage increase would cost about £7bn more than in the public sector plans The candidates worried this was inflationary It is a fraction of their tax cuts, which they think aren’t inflationary (Excluding Sunak) The maths doesn’t work #itvdebate
- Extraordinary nonsenseBoris Johnson thinks a free trade deal with the USA could allow us to keep their beef out of our markets while enabling us to sell into theirs. 🤷♂️
00:00 - Replying to @ChrisGiles_Update: She is now through... UK border force said she should have both passports (never happened before) and asked why she was travelling on her German one "Because of Brexit" was the obvious and correct reply Honestly - we don't help ourselves sometimes
- Before the UK leaves the EU... After 15 months of data... Brexit has cost Britain roughly... £350m a week ft.com/content/e3b292… via @FT
