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Chancellor Rishi Sunak faces the unenviable task of rolling back the greatest wage subsidy scheme in recent history. This news comes to the fore as data shows the bounce-back loan scheme has proven immensely popular. The Eurozone faces the largest GDP contraction on record.
Jim Pickard highlights the monumental task at hand for the Chancellor.
https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1257939655078674432
Prem Sikka weighs in with concern.
UK Furloughed employees could see their pay package reduced to 60% under new govt plans.
Pubs, restaurants, cafes, cinemas, theatres unlikely to operate normally for long time. Many face living on 60% of minimum wage. Foodbank queues will lengthen.https://t.co/ZuUDL86fcK— Prem Sikka (@premnsikka) May 6, 2020
This news breaks as early data points to massive demand for small business bounce-back loans.
The key point for me on all this: we were SO right to call for #BounceBackLoans
1) There is huge appetite from small biz’s;
2) Now see incredible (unofficial) numbers of lifesaving £££ in small biz accounts
CBILS was needed but couldn’t deliver this volume of smaller loans https://t.co/VLqsgP0qyS
— Craig Beaumont (@craigie_b) May 5, 2020
The Eurozone faces the worst contraction of GDP on record.
https://twitter.com/MehreenKhn/status/1257958328262631424
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— Josephine Cumbo (@JosephineCumbo) May 5, 2020
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