PM tells business chiefs Covid jab is UK’s best way out of recession

PM tells business chiefs Covid jab is UK’s best way out of recession

Boris Johnson has told business leaders that efficient delivery of the coronavirus vaccine is Britain's best economic recovery tool as he promised a sustainable fightback from the worst recession in 300 years.

The prime minister chaired the first meeting of a new business council designed to coordinate the government's economic response to Covid-19 with leaders from the country's biggest companies.

Aiming to reassure business leaders that the government remained committed to kickstarting the economy as soon as possible, Johnson told the executives from 30 major firms - including GlaxoSmithKline, British Airways and HSBC - that the government was looking ahead to the economic recovery and the business landscape after Brexit.

The prime minister said it was important for the government and businesses to work together to rebuild the virus-stricken economy, and that he would support job creation, upgrade Britain's infrastructure, and launch a "green industrial revolution“ to help the country "build back better“ from the pandemic.

Despite recent border disruption and intense frustration among business leaders over the government's handling of Brexit, Johnson told the first meeting of the "build back better council“ that British industry had opportunities to seize from leaving the EU. Johnson had been reported in 2018 to have said, "Fuck