job losses to soar with their replacement for the furlough scheme, the SNP has claimed. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced last week a new scheme to top up the wages of workers whose employers can only bring them back on reduced hours with the job retention scheme due to end next month.SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford claims the new job support scheme, coupled with Brexit, will lead to a "bitter winter" for families across the country.He said: "Millions of families face a bitter winter of rising unemployment and squeezed living standards - as a result of the Tory government's reckless decision to scrap the furlough scheme and impose an extreme Brexit, during a second wave of coronavirus."The job support scheme has drawn criticism from.
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