The Chancellor “needs to change to reduce the cost of the [Coronavirus Job Retention] scheme and to make it financially more attractive for workers to overcome inhibitions to exiting lockdown”, says Professor Len Shackleton, Editorial and Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Writing for CapX, Len says the government will face a challenge persuading nervous workers to return to the workplace but that the overwhelming cost of the CJRS must also be addressed.

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