Meta-owned online marketplaces are swarming with scammers who use deceptive ads to defraud banking customers, fraud prevention heads at leading British banks
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First the bad news, then the good. The UK economy has contracted far more than its peers during the pandemic - GDP shrunk by 20% from lockdown #1 to lockdown #3, against an OECD average of a 10% decline. That s according to figures presented by Chi Onwurah, MP, Shadow Minister for Science, Research, and Digital, who chaired the first session of a Westminster eForum on supporting trade and investment in UK tech.
Her implication was clear: Brexit and COVID-19 have dealt a double blow to a country that has been adrift from its allies since the 2016 referendum. Meanwhile, some politicians promise of borderless trade with the EU continuing post Brexit has been exposed as a fantasy - and a dangerous one at that, data adequacy notwithstanding.