Rishi Sunak addressed MPs in the House of Commons this afternoon as he outlined the government's new economic support package for businesses and workers struggling financially amid the pandemic.Announcing a raft of new economic measures, the Chancellor explained that the new scheme would see the government “directly support” the wages of people in viable jobs working at least a third of their normal hours.The current furlough scheme, also known as the coronavirus job retention scheme, saw the government pay up to 80 per cent of more than 9 million workers' wages during the height of the pandemic.However, he told MPs today that it would be “fundamentally wrong” to hold people in jobs that only exist inside the furlough scheme.“We need to.
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