A Sunday Times article has raised the issue of how the government should wean the private sector off government support schemes like furlough and Eat Out to Help Out.

IEA Economics Fellow Julian Jessop is quoted in the piece, saying: “There’s a race going on between the economic recovery picking up and the unwinding of the furlough scheme… The economy is winning; we are starting to see decent signs of a V-shaped recovery. They [the government] will have to hold their nerve.”

Read the article in full here.