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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 25 February 2021 - Sunak to either extend furlough or suggest an alternative
Description: "The Government's staged plan to reopen the economy as the number of infections continues to fall has provided a boost to the country both socially and economically. The vaccination programme has become self-fulfilling, with the infrastructure that has been set-up working very efficiently.
Next week the Chancellor will present his Budget to Parliament and that is when the realities of the damage done to the economy by the three lockdowns it has taken to bring the virus under control, will be laid bare.
Rishi Sunak is being pressured by business leaders, trade unions and the Opposition to continue several of...