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Salford has 273 new confirmed cases of coronavirus bringing the cumulative total to 11,199. The figure is well up on the last few days, while the seven day rate per 100,000 population rose slightly from 534.7 to 536.6. There were three new ...

The government has been slammed for ‘discriminating’ against the self-employed during lockdown, but it argues its support scheme is one of the ‘most generous in the world.'

Gaps in the furlough and self-employment schemes meant not everyone has been able to access financial support. We must call out this injustice.

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 ...

Yesterday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak confirmed that the furlough scheme will be extended across the UK until the end of March - but there are still some who don’t qualify.

The UK government has pledged £7.3bn in a refreshed package of support for self-employed people. But critics say that almost 3 million workers may be out of pocket, with the second coronavirus lockdown in England, and the Covid-19 restrictions in ...

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 ...

Months of worry and sleepless nights has taken its toll on Helen Godbold-Eade. "I swing between anger and depression, hope and despair," she said. "And exhaustion, always exhaustion."