According to Rishi Sunak in his announcement on furloughed employees today there are about 7.5 million jobs at almost 1m companies in the scheme now.
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Too good not to share. Please take it with a pinch of salt!

I spoke for a second time at the OECD country-by-country reporting conference today, addressing three technical issues: Should the data at a country level reported
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The OECD is holding a conference on possible reforms to its version of country-by-country reporting today. Tax authorities, business and civil society are represented. In
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I have just looked at the death data from the ONS for England and Wales for the week to 1 May. This is the plot:
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A government can survive a loss of confidence in it. A Tory government can even survive a loss of confidence in it from its usually
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Peter May, whose work underpins the Progressive Pulse blog, and I were talking yesterday about the need to bring together a whole host of posts
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David Buik is a stock broker / wealth manager with whom I have occasionally debated during broadcasts on LBC. I like him. As a person
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It is very easy to believe that the UK government is continuing with the policy of herd immunity that, appears to me, to have been
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