By Daniel Martin, Whitehall Correspondent Britain will leapfrog Germany to become Europe’s largest economy by 2030, economists predict. Thanks to our decision not to join the euro, we will overtake France in less than five years to become the fifth-largest economy in the world. In a significant boost to George Osborne’s austerity programme, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) hailed the UK as the second-best performing economy in the Western world after the United States – and said France was one of the worst. A vision of the future? The predictions, right, could be good news for George Osborne if true. The UK is set to beat Germany and France but lose out to Brazil and India, remaining the sixth-largest world economy
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We are seat to leapfrog Germany and France but lose to India and Brazil
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Austerity and our refusal to join Euro put us in good stead, study claims
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Study was by the Centre for Economics and Business Research
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