Covid Inquiry hears evidence on day PM defends his pandemic furlough scheme as 'compassionate conservatism'
Covid Inquiry hears evidence on day PM defends his pandemic furlough scheme as ‘compassionate conservatism’
But on 7 September 2020 Sir Patrick wrote: “[Chancellor] blocking all notion of paying to get people to isolate despite all the evidence that this will be needed.”Mr Sunak initially rejected the advice before introducing some support for self-isolation later in September, but this was described by the Trades Union Congress as “too little too late”.
The government’s Behavioural Insights Team, also known as the Nudge Unit, also raised the issue, pointing out that care homes that paid sick leave to their staff saw lower infection rates of Covid. The TUC subsequently reported that local authorities rejected 70 per cent of applications and only a fifth of workers had even heard of it.in Manchester on Wednesday, Mr Sunak gave the example of his funding for the furlough scheme – which supported businesses to pay for workers to be temporarily laid off for months during the pandemic – as “compassionate conservatism”.
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