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Manchester preparing for sharp unemployment spike as city centre likened to a 'nuclear winter'

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Manchester is preparing for unemployment to rise by a third during the coronavirus crisis – as one council chief warned that the empty city centre looks like a ‘nuclear winter’.

Town hall leader Sir Richard Leese has reiterated that it could take years to come back from ‘the biggest crisis we’ve ever faced’.

There has already been a ‘massive’ increase in the number of people applying for Universal Credit, a meeting of the council’s executive has heard.

Work has already started on a recovery plan for the city’s economy which involves supporting the unemployed, and those who are likely to lose their jobs once the government’s furloughing scheme ends.

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