Pubs and high street shops will be thrown a lifeline in Rishi Sunak’s Budget as he promised to ‘get the tills ringing once again’. On Wednesday the Chancellor will unveil £5 billion in cash grants for businesses suffering under the lockdowns. He will announce the new ‘Restart Grants’ to help businesses reopen. The grants will … Read more
Britain’s public finances will face ‘enormous strains’ in the wake of the third national lockdown, the Chancellor has warned. Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget announcement, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said a bill for the Government’s £280bn investment in coronavirus support will eventually have to be paid, with low interest rates leaving the nation’s finances ‘exposed’. Mr Sunak … Read more
Britain’s public finances will face ‘enormous strains’ in the wake of the third national lockdown, the Chancellor has warned. Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget announcement, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said a bill for the Government’s £280bn investment in coronavirus support will eventually have to be paid, with low interest rates leaving the nation’s finances ‘exposed’. Mr Sunak … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: The country cannot go on borrowing unchecked forever, but now is not the time to slam on the brakes, so Chancellor must hold his fire By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:58 GMT, 19 February 2021 | Updated: 22:18 GMT, 19 February 2021 The latest data for public borrowing tells us … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Chancellor Rishi Sunak has a chance to put some oomph behind coronavirus recovery: he should go for it By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:53 GMT, 12 February 2021 | Updated: 21:53 GMT, 12 February 2021 The major advanced economies have each gone about combating fallout from the pandemic in different … Read more
Labour shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds calls for law to save cash before ‘time runs out’ By Fiona Parker For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 February 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 9 February 2021 Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds is today calling for an urgent end to the ‘uncontrolled retreat of cash’. In a letter … Read more
Philip Hammond has launched a savage attack on Theresa May, claiming she had no idea what Brexit should look like when she became PM in July 2016. The former Tory chancellor said Mrs May ‘didn’t know’ what kind of relationship she wanted the UK to have with the European Union when she moved into Number … Read more
Never in my darkest nightmares last spring did I think we would be starting this year in virtual lockdown. Foolishly, I thought coronavirus would have long been overcome and that life would now be pretty much back to normal. How wrong I was. Although the vaccination programme offers a big injection of hope that an … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: We need entrepreneurs to survive in order to drive economy forward as Covid threat weakens – Chancellor MUST help them By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 16 January 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 16 January 2021 The big financial story of the moment is the economic destruction resulting … Read more
Doe-eyed Rishi Sunak axed the fluffy bunny act: HENRY DEEDES watches as the Chancellor loses his bonhomie By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 23:27 GMT, 11 January 2021 | Updated: 00:42 GMT, 12 January 2021 Usually when Rishi Sunak announces he’s adding another couple of noughts to the country’s spiralling debt, he puts … Read more