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Brief summary of reactions to Sunak: We have reached a point in the pandemic where confidence in an effective test and trace and/or imminent widely distributed vaccine has faded to

The U.K. should not be ending the Job Retention Scheme right now, but since the government continues to go down this route despite clear evidence that the pandemic is not

Another thing that makes me nervous about the sudden acceptance to end the furlough scheme is that btw the UK government's handling of COVID and Brexit negotiations idea that enough

The 100% guarantees became necessary because getting loan funding to the worst affected sectors via commercial banks with risk limits required it. The choice over what to do next (allow

Reading between the lines, looks like Cummings basically got into a horrible situation and panicked. But his brand is so built on being a calm, calculating, ruthless figure that the