Carrie Symonds enjoys five-star Italian holiday as Rishi Sunak unveils urgent measures to save jobs

Carrie Symonds is enjoying a holiday in the exclusive Italian resort of Lake Como with her baby Wilfred, MailOnline can reveal. In the week Boris told Britons the UK was in for another six months of misery, his fiancée was enjoying a five star getaway at a luxury £600-a-night hotel.   During her luxury getaway the … Read more

Rishi Sunak: Cancelling November budget shows economic uncertainty, writes ALEX BRUMMER 

The Chancellor’s emergency decision to cancel the November budget and instead unveil a new winter plan today to preserve jobs and support enterprise is an indication of the grave economic uncertainty this country now faces. Uncertainty made far worse by the Government’s latest measures to contain the pandemic. Rishi Sunak’s surprise autumn package, which comes … Read more

Rishi Sunak CANCELS autumn Budget as he prepares new ‘furlough 2.0’ winter economy plan

Rishi Sunak has cancelled plans for a Budget later this year amid fears over the economic impact of a second wave of coronavirus. Questions had already been raised over whether the Chancellor’s set piece autumn announcement, broadly penned in for November, would go ahead. But the Treasury this afternoon confirmed it had been put back … Read more

Rishi Sunak CANCELS autumn Budget as he prepares new ‘furlough 2.0’ winter economy plan

Rishi Sunak CANCELS autumn Budget as he prepares new ‘furlough 2.0’ winter economy plan to save millions of jobs and businesses amid threat of second national lockdown By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent and Jack Maidment, Deputy Political Editor For Mailonline Published: 16:45 BST, 23 September 2020 | Updated: 16:53 BST, 23 September 2020 Rishi Sunak … Read more

Rishi Sunak faces backlash from retail giants over plans to axe tax-free shopping

Rishi Sunak faces backlash from retail giants including Selfridges, Harrods and Marks & Spencer over plans to axe tax-free shopping that ‘will drive foreign shoppers to Paris’ Chancellor Rishi Sunak was told the move would wipe out 70,000 jobs Retail giants have warned that the plans would cost the economy £5.6billion  Selfridges managing director Anne … Read more

Rishi Sunak faces backlash from retail giants over plans to axe tax-free shopping

Rishi Sunak faces backlash from retail giants including Selfridges, Harrods and Marks & Spencer over plans to axe tax-free shopping that ‘will drive foreign shoppers to Paris’ Chancellor Rishi Sunak was told the move would wipe out 70,000 jobs Retail giants have warned that the plans would cost the economy £5.6billion  Selfridges managing director Anne … Read more

CPI inflation rate plunges to just 0.2% amid Eat Out scheme

CPI inflation rate plunges to just 0.2 PER CENT as government’s Eat Out discount scheme and tumbling air fares keep prices down By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline Published: 07:21 BST, 16 September 2020 | Updated: 07:28 BST, 16 September 2020 Inflation plunged last month as the government’s Eat Out scheme and tumbling air … Read more

Four million STILL on furlough despite it ending next month as Sunak begs firms not to cut jobs

Rishi Sunak begged employers not to sack staff when the coronavirus furlough scheme ends next month as the Treasury revealed that almost four million workers remain on it.  The Chancellor hailed the Job Retention Scheme (JRS) this afternoon amid fears of an employment cliff-edge when it ceases to cover wages at the end of October. … Read more

Boris Johnson looks at alternatives to cap on costs as care reforms are delayed AGAIN

Care reforms are delayed AGAIN: Families remain stuck with sky-high bills as Boris Johnson looks at alternatives to cap on costs Families stuck facing sky-high bills as Boris’ plan for care reforms delayed again  It is understood that Downing Street has gone cool on idea of £40,000 costs cap PM is now looking at a … Read more

Rishi Sunak ‘could delay the Budget until January’ amid fears of a second wave of coronavirus

Rishi Sunak ‘could delay the Budget until January’ amid fears a second wave of coronavirus this autumn could cause more havoc to the economy The Chancellor has yet to set a firm date for the fiscal showpiece Told MPs economic forecast used for it would not come before mid-November A December Budget would not leave … Read more