Watch live: Niall Paterson is joined by Rishi Sunak and former international trade secretary Liam Fox as the Chancellor is set to announce a £500m expansion of job support after furlough ends
Matthew Fell, chief policy director at the Confederation of British Industry, welcomed the chancellor's plans for"pivoting from furlough to economic recovery".
Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, claimed the action would"do nothing to compensate for the chancellor's tax rises, cost of living crisis and cuts to Universal Credit which are set to hammer millions of working families". And, ahead of Mr Sunak's conference speech, SNP shadow chancellor Alison Thewliss claimed the UK was"facing a Tory-made cost of living crisis"."Rather than pandering to the Tory faithful, Rishi Sunak must take urgent steps to boost household incomes and reverse rising levels of poverty in the UK," she said.
Prior to the chancellor's speech later, Brexit minister Lord Frost will kick off proceedings on the main conference stage in Manchester with a speech in which he will hail how the"long bad dream of our EU membership is over".
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