Ministers have rallied to support the prime minister’s chief advisor Dominic Cummings as “devastating new claims” emerge about a further breach of the lockdown rules. Boris Johnson’s special advisor (SPAD) has been under fire since news broke last night that Cummings drove 264 miles from London to his parents’ Durham property with his wife and […]
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak has assured millions of furloughed Britons that the government will continue paying a share of their wages up until the end of October. The job retention scheme – which has cost £10bn so far to support 7.5 million workers and almost one million businesses – has been a “world leading economic intervention” […]
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The number of deaths recorded in England and Wales has hit a record high amidst warnings Britain’s GDP could shrink by 35% while unemployment may double to 3.4 million in the next two months. The dire forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) says the economy faces its biggest quarterly decline in at least […]
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The government has promised to pay the country’s wage bill following Boris Johnson’s order for a total shutdown of the UK’s restaurants, pubs and leisure facilities to combat the coronavirus outbreak and save “thousands” of lives. Chancellor Rishi Sunak committed the government to pay 80% of the wages of people unable to work because of […]
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer has promised the NHS will get “whatever resources it needs” to combat the coronavirus outbreak, as the number of positive cases in the UK rose by 64 to total 273. Rishi Sunak said the UK’s “strong” economic foundations enabled him to provide extra funding which could include help for individuals […]
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Chancellor Sajid Javid has sensationally quit after the prime minster ordered a cull of all of his Treasury advisors at the start of Boris Johnson’s cabinet reshuffle. Javid’s resignation – just three weeks before the budget – is the biggest shock of a day that has seen other leading Tories lose their cabinet posts in […]
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