Business

Before news of the Prime Minister’s diagnosis broke, Krishnan Guru-Murthy spoke to the Business Secretary Alok Sharma

Downing Street has insisted the Government is doing everything it can to secure new ventilators for the NHS ‘in the coming weeks’

They may be better known for making vacuum cleaners, but James Dyson’s company is now being asked to make ventilators for the NHS.

Theatres are dark. Concert venues shuttered. Parades and festivals cancelled.

There’s confusion on building sites across the country. The Scottish government has ordered all but critical construction work to stop, to fight the spread of coronavirus.

We’re joined by Michael Smith – who leads an organisation of over five hundred independently owned pubs, restaurants and shops in South London – and Josh Hardie, the Deputy Director General of the Confederation of British Industry.

The Bank of England has cut interest rates to their lowest ever and is pumping more money into the economy to try to stop the panic on the financial markets. But will that be enough to save businesses? 

The impact of the coronavirus social distancing measures are already hitting firms hard – from pubs and restaurants to travel and entertainment.

I’m now joined by Dame Louise Casey, who advises the government on homelessness, General Secretary of the TUC, Frances O’Grady, and businesswoman Dame Carolyn Fairbairn.

There has been another day of markets plunging across the globe as central banks battle to deal with the fallout from the pandemic.

Stock markets have rebounded slightly today after London and New York experienced their biggest one-day decline since 1987 yesterday.

Stock markets across the world went into meltdown today in the wake of Donald Trump’s announcement

We’re joined by Professor Mariana Mazzucato, an economist and the Founding Director of the University College London Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose, and Rain Newton-Smith – Chief Economist at the Confederation of British Industry.

Donald Trump has said that the coronavirus will go away and that everyone should stay calm.

Airlines are struggling to cope with mass cancellations as the virus outbreaks lead to plummeting demand for international flights.