NEWS
Lockdown bloodbath has already put 200,000 out of work
Almost 200,000 workers at household-name companies have been laid off since the start of the government’s lockdown, an analysis by the Daily Mail has found. The Chancellor was told last night that his focus needs to be on ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’ in his mini-Budget on Wednesday – Mail
County lines gangs disguised drug couriers as key workers during coronavirus lockdown – Guardian
Labour backs ‘wealth tax’ on the ‘very best off people’ to pay for coronavirus crisis if UK economy does not recover as shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds says those with ‘broadest shoulders’ should be targeted – Mail
Thirteen universities are facing closure if they do not get a bailout as a £19billion blackhole caused by the pandemic looms over the sector – Mail
COMMENT
What has ‘builder’ Boris got against the miners of Northumberland? – Dominic Lawson, Mail
Britain’s cosy establishment is the product of a dysfunctional political system – Nick Timothy, Telegraph
