As some call for an extension to the coronavirus job retention scheme, Professor Len Shackleton, IEA Editorial and Research Fellow, said leaving businesses “on life support just delays adjustment to post-Covid reality”.

Quoted in the Daily Telegraph, Len added “there may be a case for some further assistance for people losing jobs, but as furlough drags on it is apparent that more and more businesses are becoming unviable.”

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