Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveils new wage subsidy to save jobs

Mike Cherry, chair of the Federation of Small Enterprises, known as it a “swift and sizeable intervention” but warned firms “are experiencing a exceptionally complicated winter”.

“Today’s help offer is the flipside of the coin to Tuesday’s Covid-19 business enterprise constraints,” he claimed.

Dame Carolyn Fairbairn, head of the Confederation of British Business, claimed the intervention would preserve “hundreds of 1000’s of practical work this winter.”

“It is suitable to concentrate on assist on work with a upcoming, but can only be section-time even though desire stays flat.”

Even so, economists warned the help will only cushion the blow the economy faces from a next wave.

Ruth Gregory, economist at Funds Economics, claimed: “These actions won’t eradicate the hit totally. That is why we believe GDP will stagnate in the last 3 months of the year.”

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