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The Duke of Sussex left England to join his wife, Meghan, in Canada. This followed an agreement that stripped him of the style His Royal Highness and her of the style Her Royal Highness. ‘They are required to step back from royal duties, including official military appointments,’ a statement from Buckingham Palace said. ‘They will no longer receive public funds for royal duties.’ The Sussexes said they would repay the cost of the refurbishment of Frogmore Cottage, put at £2.4 million. ‘Harry, Meghan and Archie will always be much loved members of my family,’ the Queen said. On the eve of his departure, the Duke said: ‘It brings me great sadness that it has come to this.’ Three men were stabbed to death in Ilford.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development advised Britain to delay a digital tax on multinationals after France caved in to American pressure. The International Monetary Fund predicted that the UK economy would grow by 1.4 per cent this year, and that of the eurozone by 1.3 per cent. The UK employment rate rose to a new high of 76.3 per cent, with an unprecedented 32.9 million people in work and unemployment at its lowest for 45 years. The annual rate of growth for pay was 3.4 per cent, or 1.8 per cent after inflation. Pressure over the Mumbles reached 1050.5 hectopascals (31.02 in of mercury), close to the British record of 1053.6 hPa (31.11 in) at Aberdeen in 1902.
Britain will diverge from EU rules after Brexit, Sajid Javid, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, told the Financial Times: ‘We will not be a ruletaker, we will not be in the single market and we will not be in the customs union — and we will do this by the end of the year.’
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