This is plainly a time for an extension of emergency support for UK workers and businesses, not for efforts to consolidate the public finances or to engage in the conventional political games of chess over tax increases, says Ben Chu
The chancellor should have recognised earlier that his insistence on ending furlough by November was unrealisticAnd little that Rishi Sunak had planned for the UK economy after he was unexpectedly parachuted into the Treasury to replace Sajid Javid in February has survived contact with coronavirus.
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