article_snippet: It comes just two weeks before the launch of Boris Johnson book The Flat White Economy which tells how London swapped the City’s champagne and supercars lifestyle for bicycles and trendy flats.
article_snippet: Recent projects include the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Arts Council England.'
article_snippet: In December the CEBR claimed Britain's economy would be larger than Germany's by 2030, and suggested that the UK overtook France in 2014 to become the world's fifth largest economy.
article_snippet: The growth in Britain's national accounts was aided by the decision of the Office for National Statistics to include earnings from the previously uncharted economy of drugs and the sex trade.
article_snippet: The French figures do not yet include these industries.
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