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High Court test case to decide if UK businesses can claim billions of lost lockdown income
The High Court has begun hearing a test case which will decide whether UK businesses can claim billions of pounds for lost income during the lockdown.
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Fears for UK economy if relations with China deteriorate further
Power, transport, water – China has been buying its way into key parts of the UK economy for years.
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Paid employment in UK fell by 649,000 since lockdown
Despite the furlough scheme – paid employment in the UK has fallen by almost 650,000 since the start of the pandemic in March
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Sunak warns ‘tough choices ahead’ for economy, over taxes and spending
‘Tough choices’ lie ahead, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned, as the economy continues to count the cost of the coronavirus pandemic.
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‘British companies or individuals in China could be targeted’ after Huawei decision – Steve Tsang, SOAS
We spoke to the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Tom Tugendhat – and Steve Tsang, director of the China Institute at the School of Oriental and African studies in London.
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Huawei to be stripped from UK 5G network by 2027
The Government has announced it does not trust the Chinese telecoms company Huawei to make equipment for Britain’s 5G network.
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‘Face masks will reassure people’: Businesswoman Laura Tenison
We spoke to Laura Tenison, who is the Chief Executive of the baby clothing retailer Jojo Maman Bébé
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Face coverings in shops to be made compulsory in England
With the economy taking a battering, the government is desperate to get us back into shops and spending again.
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Post-lockdown UK economy not bouncing back as quickly as hoped
The great hope was that the massive economic downturn brought about by the virus would be temporary.
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Inside an east London barber shop after eased lockdown restrictions
We’ve been down to one barber shop in east London – where staff and clients are both celebrating the easing of restrictions.
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Taxi drivers, cleaners and shop workers with no Covid symptoms to be tested for virus
The government has announced a further expansion of the testing programme in England focusing on people in jobs with high levels of public contact such as taxi drivers, cleaners and shop staff.
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Government is trying to ‘blunt the extent of spike’ in unemployment – Chair of Treasury Select Committee
Conservative MP Mel Stride, chair of the Commons Treasury Committee, spoke to us from Central London.
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1 in 10 Brits could be unemployed after coronavirus, says economist
We spoke to Jagjit Chadha, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, asking if yesterday’s summer statement is already starting to look a bit thin.
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Thousands of UK job losses announced as coronavirus hits economy hard
The Chancellor may have woken up today to excited headlines welcoming his £30 billion pound plan for jobs, but by lunchtime he was confronted by the chilling reality of thousands more job losses.
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There’s an urgency to give money but ‘not enough conditionality’ of how industry is accessing funds – – Economist Prof Mariana Mazzucato
We talk to Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London, and Rupert Harrison, who was Chief of Staff to George Osborne when he was Chancellor.