C4 News: Rishi Sunak extends furlough scheme to end of March

November 05 2020

The government’s furlough scheme, designed in March to pay 80 per cent of the wages for some nine million workers for a month – and extended ever since – has been extended again. But this time not just by a month, but right up until the end of next March. This, as the Governor of the Bank of England describes the recession we are living through as without precedent.