Category: Eat out to help out

Rishi Sunak spent £2m on focus groups for ‘eat out to help out’ scheme

Exclusive: Extensive polling ordered by the then chancellor, documents reveal, but scientific advisers not consultedRishi Sunak ordered multiple taxpayer-funded focus groups and polls to craft the messaging of his planned...

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Key Covid inquiry report creates election date headache for PM

Heather Hallett’s first findings are to be published before the summer and will show how austerity and Brexit hit pandemic planningAn explosive report spelling out how the Conservative government failed to prepare the...

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Key Covid inquiry report creates election date headache for Sunak

Heather Hallett’s first findings are to be published before the summer and will show how austerity and Brexit hit pandemic planningAn explosive report spelling out how the Conservative government failed to prepare the...

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One Nation Tory MPs to vote for Rwanda bill as leader of influential right wing group calls for it be rewritten – UK politics live

Mark Francois, the chair of the European Research Group, says bill should be rewritten after legal advice that is it only ‘partial solution’Sunak says the PM had to balance competing interests during Covid.Only he...

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Rishi Sunak says he did not need to consult scientists on ‘eat out to help out’

PM defends his record as chancellor at Covid inquiry, but repeatedly says he cannot remember meetings and other detailsUK politics live – latest updatesRishi Sunak has forcefully defended his record as chancellor during...

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ERG chair says Rwanda bill should be pulled; Sunak tells Covid inquiry that describing Treasury as ‘pro-death squad’ was wrong – live

ERG told by legal ‘star chamber’ that Rwanda bill is ‘partial solution’; PM says he was not aware of claims about Treasury by No 10 during CovidSunak says the PM had to balance competing interests during...

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ERG chair says Rwanda bill should be pulled; Sunak insists science advisers had chance to raise ‘eat out to help out’ fears – UK politics live

ERG told by legal ‘star chamber’ that the government’s Rwanda bill is ‘partial solution’; PM says jobs would have been at risk without Covid schemeSunak says the PM had to balance competing...

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Rwanda bill ‘incomplete solution’, Tories told; Sunak says hospitality jobs were at risk without ‘eat out to help out’ – UK politics live

ERG told by legal ‘star chamber’ that the government’s Rwanda bill is ‘partial solution’; PM says jobs would have been at risk with ‘devastating consequences’Sunak says the PM had to...

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Sunak and Johnson Covid-19 inquiry appearances delayed ‘to avoid party conference season’

Questions for current and ex-PM over their handling of the pandemic put off until NovemberThe “box office” inquisitions that will bring Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings before the Covid-19 inquiry have...

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Sunak under fire as ‘stupid’ Eat Out to Help Out scheme to be focus of Covid inquiry

Leading scientist attacks prime minister as criticism mounts of government approach to science during the crisisRishi Sunak is facing a barrage of criticism in the run-up to the official Covid-19 inquiry as a leading scientist...

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