- League table produced by Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR)
- UK is set to push further ahead of seventh-placed France in decade after Brexit
- Climb back up league table is despite fall in GDP in first half of 2020 of 21.2%
Britain has become the world's fifth-largest economy once again, despite suffering a deep recession as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the annual league table produced by the Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR), the UK has leapfrogged India and is set to push further ahead of seventh-placed France in the decade after Brexit.
Britain had fallen behind India to be the sixth-largest economy last year but the Asian nation has been pushed back below the UK in dollar terms following a deep recession related to the coronavirus pandemic and a steep fall in the rupee.
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