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RUTH SUNDERLAND: Simply loading up firms with loans, as is happening now, is not the answer to the coronavirus crisis By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:52 BST, 10 May 2020 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 10 May 2020 What will happen to small firms once the immediate peril has passed? This is a … Read more
Let’s use local shops and save our vital national champions, says boss of software giant Sage By Steve Hare For Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 22:28 BST, 9 May 2020 | Updated: 10:20 BST, 10 May 2020 Steve Hare is the chief executive of Sage The Covid-19 pandemic is, first and foremost, a human crisis. … Read more
We have to get back to work – but the Government’s plan for how we should do so will only be part of the story. The key thing here is that the speed of the recovery matters much more than the depth of the slump. Last week, the Bank of England forecast that this year … Read more
There will be many changes for the worse when we finally creep out of lockdown and realise that the economy has gone into shrink mode. There will be fewer jobs to go to and some of the local businesses we once supported – cafes, restaurants, local bookshops – will no longer be there. Gone for … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Britain needs a new Beveridge Report to map out a social and economic settlement for the post-Covid era By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 8 May 2020 | Updated: 09:13 BST, 9 May 2020 As a nation in lockdown commemorated VE Day, here is something to ponder. In the … Read more
By unhappy coincidence, the anniversary of the most rapturous day in British history – victory in the war against Nazi evil – comes amid a dismal historic message from the Bank of England. The Covid-19 pandemic, and the lockdown it has caused, is going to take the economy on a white-knuckle ride not seen for … Read more
Cases of elderly women missing out on thousands of pounds in state pension are piling up, and the Government has failed to say what it is doing to address this scandal. We might be in the middle of a pandemic, but that shouldn’t stop it reassuring those who might be affected that it will carry … Read more
Chancellor Rishi Sunak acted fast to rescue the economy, now he has to work out how Britain pays the bill How do we pay the bill for the coronavirus crisis? Britain is a long way from business as usual, but ONS figures showing an astonishing 6.3million workers being paid by the taxpayer were enough to … Read more
As a vital part of creative Britain, the potential damage being done to ITV by the Covid-19 lockdown should be deeply worrying. ITV’s chief executive Carolyn McCall has done the right things to limit the scarring. Some 800 workers have been furloughed, the dividend and executive pay have been cut, and costs pruned. Studios are … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: As debt bubble fears mount the sooner the UK gets back to work the better By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:53 BST, 5 May 2020 | Updated: 23:39 BST, 5 May 2020 When Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party were proposing to go on a government spending spree ahead of … Read more