We need to protect the vulnerable, but reopen our economy.

Shutdowns and redundancies resulting from disastrous lockdowns aren’t working. This is a list of just some of the more well known job losses to date.

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Pizza Express 1100
Zizzi 1200
Frankie & Bennys 3000
Byron burgers 600
Bella Italia & Cafe Rouge 1900
Pret a manger 2800
Costa Coffee 1650
upper crust 5000
IAG / British Airways 12000
National trust 1000

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Manchester airport 892
Green king 800
Cineworld 5500
TSB 900
Shell 9000 worldwide
Ford 1000
Cartwright group 480
TUI 8000
Whitbread 6000
Weatherspoons 130
EasyJet 7000 planned to go

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Next 150 planned to go
Airbus 1700
Uppercrust 5000
Virgin money 400
Harrods 680
TM lewis 600
Clark’s 700
Shoe zone 3500
Accenture 900
Arcadia 500
Royal Mail 2000

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British Engines 200
Virgin Atlantic 3000
Aer Lingus 900
M&S 7950
Swiss port 4175
Heathrow 500
Centrica 5000
OVO energy 2600
BP 2000
Bombardier 600

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Bentley 500
Land Rover 1100
HSBC 35000 world wide
G4S 1150
Johnson Matthey 2500
Monsoon 550
Oasis/ warehouse 1800
Mulberry 470
John Lewis 1300
TM Lewin 600

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Boots 4000
Burger King 1600 planned
SSP Group 5000
Travis Perkins 2500
DW sports 1700 planned
Pizza Express 1100
Dixon’s Carphone 800
Debenhams 6500
Guardian media 180
Arup 350
Pret 1500
Natwest 500

Plus thousands more unreported job losses.