Dr Neil Howard is a Research Fellow in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath.
By any measure, these are extraordinary times. As the coronavirus spreads rapidly around the world, ordinary activity moves from slowdown to shutdown. Production everywhere has diminished, work is either reduced or impossible, and Nasa images even show that air pollution has radically decreased.
This is the backdrop for Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, producing two extraordinary economic announcements in quick succession. First, on March 20 he introduced a Job Retention Scheme to cover 80 per cent of wages for people who […]
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