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On Saturday last weekend, as Boris Johnson prepared to announce the lockdown he had desperately tried to avoid, a vaguely familiar figure slipped into 10 Downing Street to scrutinise the scientific data for himself. It was not a Cabinet minister, ...

Rishi Sunak has smashed the Treasury’s piggy bank again, defying the department’s usual caution on borrowing to ramp up the furlough scheme for the winter months. The Chancellor was forced into the decision by the resurgent pandemic, bringing back ...

Rishi Sunak has smashed the Treasury’s piggy bank again, defying the department’s usual caution on borrowing to ramp up the furlough scheme for the winter months. The Chancellor was forced into the decision by the resurgent pandemic, bringing back ...

I suspect that even Rishi Sunak is struggling to keep up. He is the chancellor with the budget box of many colours. At a rough count there have been at least eight different statements to announce new furlough measures since March, even if only five ...

The PM faces questions over making Tory peer Dido Harding, who is head of the programme, boss of the new National Institute of Health Protection

MINISTERS are at war over Rishi Sunak's budget in the new year over whether to hike or slash taxes to tackle the coronavirus crisis.

The government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme drove up Covid-19 infections while offering only short-lived economic benefits, a study suggests. The research concludes that the £500 million scheme, championed by the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, led to a ...

Hundreds of thousands of workers face benefit cuts next month despite rising Conservative unease over moves to switch off emergency coronavirus support. Ministers are preparing to reinstate rules in a little over two weeks’ time that will cut ...

Ever since the coronavirus crippled the UK, hundreds of billions of pounds of aid have been on offer to those worst affected. But now some of that support will be pulled on Halloween. The generous furlough scheme will end, and mortgage and loan ...

Rishi Sunak was under pressure to reveal details of his financial interests last night after it emerged that he had put his investments into a blind trust. Opposition parties and transparency groups called on the chancellor to be “completely ...