The government has announced it is extending the Coronavirus Job Retention scheme for a further four months, alongside increased support for self-employed workers.
The ongoing pandemic disruption combined with Brexit could overwhelm local authorities and devolved administrations, according to the Institute for Government.
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The UK’s credit rating could be upgraded if a post-Brexit trade deal is agreed with the European Union, according to ratings agency Standard and Poor’s.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced the government is to amend its Job Support Scheme to increase support to businesses affected by reduced trade resulting from Covid-19.
The UK government will need to get record debt in relation to GDP onto a “downward path” once the economy has recovered from Covid-19, according to the OECD.
As much as £26bn paid out under the government-backed Bounce Back Loan Scheme could be lost to fraud or default, according to the National Audit Office.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak signalled that plans for the government to get debt back under control will be pushed into the medium term, following this year’s record borrowing.
The economic disruption caused by Covid-19 and Brexit could complicate the government’s “levelling up” agenda, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The UK is unlikely to see negative interest rates “imminently”, according to David Ramsden, deputy governor for markets and banking at the Bank of England.
The Bank of England has outlined plans to explore how negative interest rates could be implemented for the first time, to help the UK’s economic recovery from Covid-19.
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The government’s Internal Market Bill could make a future free trade deal with the European Union harder, leaving UK GDP 2% worse off, according to ratings agency Fitch.
As director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson has overseen a period of ‘extraordinary’ lockdown output from his organisation, charting Covid-19’s economic impact.
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Tax reforms should be implemented alongside the raising of tax rates to make eventual rises “less painful”, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has suggested.