This was the Avro (A.V.Roe) Canada 'Arrow', which flew around 1958 at speeds in excess of Mach2.This was ahead of the Americans, and it is alleged that Eisenhower put pressure on Canadian PM Diefenbacker to cancel it.
The Arrow was the first aircraft to use computer control and fly by wire, back in 1958.
This was twenty years ahead of the YF-16.
An aerodynamically similar British aircraft would have been the thin-wing Gloster Javelin; when they cleared out the wind tunnel storage in 1983 at Cranfield, they found the original models for the thin-wing Jav.,which I could probably have bought for a pittance.
Mug!
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