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ALEX BRUMMER: UK’s hard-earned fiscal and monetary credibility, a willingness to invest in infrastructure, flexible labour and healthy banking sector should help restore prosperity By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:27 GMT, 29 October 2020 | Updated: 22:44 GMT, 29 October 2020 The inspectors have been in and Rishi Sunak has passed his … Read more
Knives out for Rishi Sunak in school meals row: Chancellor and Education Secretary Gavin Williamson blame each other for school meals fiasco as Marcus Rashford pushes the PM towards ANOTHER U-turn Rishi Sunak locked in blame game with Gavin Williamson over school meals The Chancellor has increasingly become the focus of attacks by Opposition Allies … Read more
‘I don’t want their business’: North Yorkshire restaurant in Rishi Sunak’s constituency BARS the Chancellor and three other Conservative MPs from establishment life after they voted against free school meals The Mill in Stokesley, North Yorkshire, has banned local MP Rishi Sunak Also barred Yorkshire Tories Matt Vickers, Simon Clarke, Jacob Young Comes after they voted against … Read more
On every commuter train, there’s usually one poor sap whose eyelids are waging war with gravity. Watching them engage in this brave battle, it’s as though every muscle in their face is winched to the max, desperately trying to keep those tired peepers open. Heave, boys, heave! Failure to do so and snap! Down goes … Read more
A THIRD of self-employed workers remain ineligible for coronavirus earnings support as Chancellor doubles income allowance for the rest Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced further financial support schemes He will double grants for the self-employed from 20 per cent to 40 per cent of previous year’s earnings Government criticised for continuing to exclude many of … Read more
Rishi Sunak will today launch a new rescue package to help firms hit by Covid restrictions retain their staff. The Chancellor will update MPs this morning on a package of support set to cost hundreds of millions of pounds to help firms in sectors such as hospitality, which have been badly hit by new restrictions … Read more
Top luxury brands warn Chancellor that axing duty-free sales during Covid-19 pandemic will put thousands of retail jobs further at risk 16 firms said removing VAT refunds for international visitors to shops would deliver a hammer blow to the fashion industry Their warning comes after research laid bare the devastation retailers face this year, with … Read more
A growing feud between Andy Burnham and top ministers is set to intensify after the Labour mayor labelled Rishi Sunak ‘the problem’ in a row over tighter coronavirus restrictions in Greater Manchester. The mayor of Greater Manchester, who has called for more financial support for the area after it was plunged into a Tier 3 lockdown, … Read more
Rishi Sunak has warned a ‘blunt’ circuit-breaker national lockdown could cause ‘permanent damage,’ to UK jobs and firms. There are growing calls, particularly from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, for a two-week circuit breaker to be implemented as a means of slowing the Covid-19 infection rate. Manchester and Lancashire could well join Liverpool under Tier … Read more
Rishi Sunak set to press International Monetary Fund to ease debt burden on poorest countries hit by coronavirus By Dan Atkinson, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 10 October 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 10 October 2020 Rishi Sunak is set to press the International Monetary Fund to ease the debt burden on the … Read more