Nearly one million jobs have been lost since the start of the pandemic, and experts are warning there is worse to come after the pandemic sent the economy plunging by a record 20.4% between April and June
The government has been slammed by the opposition as Britain officially enters the second recession in just over a decade.Labour Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds tweeted: “We’ve already got the worst excess death rate in Europe - now we’re on course for the worst recession too.
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