With a public sector pay freeze and cuts to foreign aid, has Rishi Sunak’s spending review shown him to be a typical Tory class warrior? With Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar and James Meadway.
While it has already led to more than one million deaths, the consequences of Covid-19 go beyond just public health with 2020 experiencing the sharpest economic downturn in history. Of course much of that was intentional, with demobilisation seen as necessary to control the virus, but what are the longer term economic impacts? Will some […]
Rishi Sunak has annnounced an extension to the furlough and, once again, the realities of covid have forced the government into another screeching U-turn. Do the Tories still lack a strategy for dealing with the virus? Plus: Trump’s bizarre twitter vids and Number 10’s new spokesperson. With Michael Walker, Dalia Gebrial and James Meadway.
They employ millions, and form the heartbeat of the economy, but are jobs on high streets – in retail and hospitality – now facing wipeout?
Rishi Sunak claims his mini-budget will save your job and save the high street, but is a bonus for employers and a half-price meal voucher enough to save Britain from a virus-induced depression? With Michael Walker, Faiza Shaheen and Owen Jones.
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