Business

The government has announced a further expansion of the testing programme in England focusing on people in jobs with high levels of public contact such as taxi drivers, cleaners and shop staff.

Conservative MP Mel Stride, chair of the Commons Treasury Committee, spoke to us from Central London.

We spoke to Jagjit Chadha, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, asking if yesterday’s summer statement is already starting to look a bit thin.

 The Chancellor may have woken up today to excited headlines welcoming his £30 billion pound plan for jobs, but by lunchtime he was confronted by the chilling reality of thousands more job losses.

We talk to Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London, and Rupert Harrison, who was Chief of Staff to George Osborne when he was Chancellor.

We speak to Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds.

We speak to Stephen Barclay, who’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury

How did the offer of VAT and stamp duty cuts, money off meals and youth employment schemes go down in the new Conservative areas which were former Labour heartlands.

It wasn’t called a budget, but with the raft of measures was much bigger than most fiscal statements.

The National Crime Agency has launched an investigation into Leicester’s textile industry over allegations of exploitation

Ban the Chinese tech giant Huawei from the UK’s 5G network and there will be consequences, Beijing’s ambassador has warned

Yesterday the Prime Minister was promising to “build, build, build” the country out of an ailing Covid-induced downturn. 

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has bowed to pressure from Labour MPs and released documents connected to a major property development involving Tory party donor and ex-Daily Express owner Richard Desmond. 

The 4 July is to be independence day from the lockdown for businesses such as pubs and hairdressers in England.

We’re joined by Mark Cribb, who runs a hotel and some restaurants in Bournemouth, and by Tracy Standish who owns a bowling alley currently closed because of the restrictions.