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Rishi Sunak – Plan B will not involve furlough

This Wednesday will see the Chancellor’s second budget of the year. As always, the contents are hotly anticipated, but Rishi Sunak was reluctant to give too much away this morning. It has been reported that the new Health Security Agency is sounding out local authorities about the implementation of the government’s ‘Plan B’ for trying to control the coronavirus over the winter months. Andrew Marr asked Sunak if Plan B meant a return to a scenario very much like the one experienced this time last year:

RS: The Plan B that we’ve set out does not involve the same type of very significant economic restrictions that we saw previously, so [furlough] won’t be necessary.