Entrepreneurs and small businesses today claimed Rishi Sunak’s new wave of measures to protect jobs were ‘ultimately putting lipstick on a pig’. The Chancellor this afternoon confirmed proposals for the state to top up the wages of workers forced to cut their hours due to the coronavirus pandemic. But his plans were criticised for leaving … Read more
Rishi Sunak’s new help for business and jobs at a glace Furlough scheme will be replaced with a Job Support Scheme (JSS) to ‘directly support’ wages of staff working at least a third of regular hours. Firms will pay workers for hours they work. For regular hours they cannot work, employer and Treasury will both … Read more
Cometh the hour, cometh the photoshoot: Dishi Rishi strikes a catalogue pose for a series of moody snaps ahead of announcing latest multi-billion rescue package for UK By Rory Tingle For Mailonline Published: 15:28 BST, 24 September 2020 | Updated: 15:39 BST, 24 September 2020 Advertisement Thoughtful, poised, and ready to save Britain from economic … Read more
Rishi Sunak’s new help for business and jobs at a glace Furlough scheme will be replaced with a Job Support Scheme (JSS) to ‘directly support’ wages of staff working at least a third of regular hours. Firms will pay workers for hours they work. For regular hours they cannot work, employer and Treasury will both … Read more
Carrie Symonds is enjoying a holiday in the exclusive Italian resort of Lake Como with her baby Wilfred, MailOnline can reveal. In the week Boris told Britons the UK was in for another six months of misery, his fiancée was enjoying a five star getaway at a luxury £600-a-night hotel. During her luxury getaway the … Read more
Boris Johnson was briefed by the architect behind Sweden’s anti-lockdown strategy before he announced a raft of new restrictions to curb the spread of Covid-19, it was claimed today. Both the Prime Minister and Chancellor Rishi Sunak allegedly heard from Professor Anders Tegnell, after they sought advice from academics outside the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group … Read more
The Chancellor’s emergency decision to cancel the November budget and instead unveil a new winter plan today to preserve jobs and support enterprise is an indication of the grave economic uncertainty this country now faces. Uncertainty made far worse by the Government’s latest measures to contain the pandemic. Rishi Sunak’s surprise autumn package, which comes … Read more
Rishi Sunak has cancelled plans for a Budget later this year amid fears over the economic impact of a second wave of coronavirus. Questions had already been raised over whether the Chancellor’s set piece autumn announcement, broadly penned in for November, would go ahead. But the Treasury this afternoon confirmed it had been put back … Read more
Rishi Sunak is drawing up plans for a new German-style job retention programme to replace the government’s outgoing coronavirus furlough scheme, reports suggest. The Chancellor is under mounting pressure from business chiefs and politicians to find a new way to avoid the threat of mass layoffs when the government’s £39billion furlough scheme ends next month. … Read more
Rishi Sunak faces backlash from retail giants including Selfridges, Harrods and Marks & Spencer over plans to axe tax-free shopping that ‘will drive foreign shoppers to Paris’ Chancellor Rishi Sunak was told the move would wipe out 70,000 jobs Retail giants have warned that the plans would cost the economy £5.6billion Selfridges managing director Anne … Read more