Category: Summer statement 2020

Sunak’s jobs policies badly timed and poorly targeted, says IFS

Thinktank predicts budget deficit of £350bn this year and tax rises from 2022Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBritain’s leading tax and spending thinktank has criticised the flagship...

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‘Imagine the state we’d be in if Corbyn had been in charge’: the view from the ‘red wall’

Working-class voters in Leigh do not regret voting for Tories after listening to chancellor’s summer statementBefore the pandemic hit the UK, the Guardian’s North of England editor, Helen Pidd, and photographer Chris...

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Mass unemployment feared despite Rishi Sunak’s ‘plan for jobs’

Economic experts, unions and Labour sound warning after summer statementRishi Sunak has been warned he will need to act far more decisively to prevent mass unemployment this autumn after unveiling a £30bn mini budget...

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Rishi Sunak unveils stamp duty holiday and hospitality VAT cut

Chancellor also announces £9bn reward for firms bringing back furloughed workersSummer statement: chancellor’s key points at a glanceAnalysis: Sunak tries to kickstart UK’s economyStamp duty: what is it and...

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UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson faces Keir Starmer at PMQs ahead of Sunak’s summer statement

Follow live updates on the latest on the coronavirus crisis in the UK and chancellor Rishi Sunak’s summer statement How Sunak could kickstart UK’s post-lockdown economyUK’s Covid-19 economic crisis in five key...

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