Boris Johnson’s refusal to order a national two week circuit breaker will cost the economy £110billion. And that is the equivalent of double the country’s spending on schools.
Labour analysis shows that if the virus continues to spread at levels seen earlier this year the PM’s failure to act will see Britain’s wealth drop an extra six per cent.
Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds told the Sunday Mirror: “Cabinet ministers are blocking a circuit breaker because they don’t understand – or care – about the multi-billion-pound cost of doing nothing. “This stubbornness doesn’t just put public health at risk.
It means more job losses, shuttered businesses and livelihoods in ruin.” The economic damage caused by Covid is not limited to the impact of
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