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Excl first interview with Chancellor @RishiSunak since massive pandemic rescue packages, launching new 100% taxpayer guarantee for small biz loans, and says to those asking for lockdown lift: best way to get “thriving economy” is to “get control of the virus now”.
Excl first interview with Chancellor @RishiSunak since massive pandemic rescue packages, launching new 100% taxpayer guarantee for small biz loans, and says to those asking for lockdown lift: best way to get “thriving economy” is to “get control of the virus now”.
I ask the Chancellor if the Government is being clear with the public about what the “new normal” will be for workers, fliers, parents on lockdown:
“It will be a process, it will not be a binary event where suddenly everything is back to normal. That would be unrealistic...”
“It will be a process, it will not be a binary event where suddenly everything is back to normal. That would be unrealistic...”
I ask the Chancellor if there was any guarantee of a rapid “V-shaped” bounce back on the economy: “too early to put precise numbers on it” but that “it is very clear that the economic is going to take a significant hit in the short term”....
Our cameras were invited to HMRC Leeds where socially distancing civil servants handle furlough scheme.. Chancellor: “all the teams involved in doing it deserve enormous praise - never before have we been able to do something of this magnitude in such a short space of time”
BLOG on interview with Chancellor, on the economy, rescue packages, the furlough scheme and if the “trade off” over lifting the lockdown: bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
