Rishi Sunak announces ANOTHER coronavirus bailout for business

Rishi Sunak’s new help for business and jobs at a glace  Furlough scheme will  be replaced with a Job Support Scheme (JSS) to ‘directly support’ wages of staff working at least a third of regular hours. Firms will pay workers for hours they work. For regular hours they cannot work, employer and Treasury will both … Read more

Rishi Sunak announces ANOTHER coronavirus bailout for business

Rishi Sunak’s new help for business and jobs at a glace  Furlough scheme will  be replaced with a Job Support Scheme (JSS) to ‘directly support’ wages of staff working at least a third of regular hours. Firms will pay workers for hours they work. For regular hours they cannot work, employer and Treasury will both … Read more

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

Carrie Symonds has enjoyed a five-star holiday in the exclusive Italian resort of Lake Como with her baby Wilfred, MailOnline can reveal. In the week Boris Johnson told Britons the UK was in for another six months of misery, his fiancée has been staying at the £600-a-night Grand Hotel Tremezzo in northern Italy with three girlfriends.   During … Read more

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

Sunak splashes the cash AGAIN: Chancellor is to unveil ‘winter plan’ TODAY with ‘flexible furlough’

Rishi Sunak will unveil a multi-billion pound ‘winter plan’ today with a VAT cut and new ‘flexible furlough’ for staff returning part-time after dire warnings that 540,000 hospitality jobs could be lost.  The Chancellor cancelled plans for a full-scale Budget in November, with sources saying it was ‘not the time’ for long-term plans. Instead he … Read more

Coronavirus: Rishi Sunak is to unveil ‘Winter plan’ to help firms

Rishi Sunak will set out plans for another multi-billion-pound business support scheme – but will warn that the Treasury cannot save every job threatened by the Government’s Covid restrictions. The Chancellor cancelled plans for a full-scale Budget in November, with sources saying it was ‘not the time’ for long-term plans. Instead he will map out an … 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 draws up German-style scheme for businesses and Treasury to jointly pay workers’ wages

Rishi Sunak is drawing up plans for a new German-style job retention programme to replace the government’s outgoing coronavirus furlough scheme, reports suggest. The Chancellor is under mounting pressure from business chiefs and politicians to find a new way to avoid the threat of mass layoffs when the government’s £39billion furlough scheme ends next month. … Read more