Posted by Mary on March 12, 2020, 7:32 am, in reply to "'Rishi'"
Laura loves him.
Budget 2020: The chancellor's very large cheque book By Laura Kuenssberg Political editor 11 March 2020
He started looking a little bit like the nervous new boy.
Rishi Sunak has barely been in one of the biggest jobs in the country for a month.
But the chancellor certainly found his stride as the astonishing scale of the government's first Budget became clear.
First off, a £30bn stimulus for the economy, in particular the emergency with the coronavirus crisis - a mixture of extra cash for the health service, loan guarantees, abolishing business rates for some firms this year and a promise that the government will pick up the significant cost of sick pay for small firms, if their workers have to stay at home because of the illness. /.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/correspondents/laurakuenssberg