Portrait of the week: Delays in Dover, decline in house prices and Donald Trump in the dock

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Britain joined Australia, Japan and nine other countries in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, or the CPTPP. Kemi Badenoch, Business and Trade Secretary, said that projections of its contribution to the growth of the UK economy, of 0.08 per cent over a decade, didn’t tell the whole story. Teachers voted for more strikes; the Passport Office began five weeks of strikes. The Food Standards Agency investigated allegations that a meat supplier falsely labelled foreign pork as British and mixed rotting and fresh meat. In March, house prices were 3.1 per cent less than a year before, according to the Nationwide – the largest annual decline since July 2009. In March, the pound gained 3 per cent against the dollar. Lord Lawson of Blaby, editor of The Spectator 1966-70 and Chancellor of the Exchequer 1983-89, died aged 91.

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