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Last August, Rishi Sunak was so confident that Covid was banished he said the furlough had to go. About 4 million workers would have either been forced to return to their jobs or found they had no job at all. “It’s wrong,” Mr Sunak told the BBC, “to keep people trapped in a situation and …

A million workers are still employed by businesses at risk of closure over the next three months, as the government is poised to withdraw critical Covid support schemes, according to new analysis. One in 16 firms say that they are now at risk of closure in the next quarter, the study by the LSE’s Programme …

Keeping track of your spending on the go has never been easier. If you have a mobile phone there are apps that can tell you how much you’ve spent on coffee in the last month, how many subscriptions you have, or even use an algorithm to automatically put money away into a savings account. Three …

What’s in your wallet? Do you even know where it is? In March last year I stuck a bank card in my pocket; since then, I’ve pretty much given up on the card, too. For the purposes of this exercise, I found and checked my wallet: there’s a £5 note I accidentally ripped in half …

John and Carol Deed, Thriplow, Cambs“We had an air source heat pump fitted in January 2020 and it has proven to be a really good decision,” says John Deed, a former marketing executive in the car industry. Deed and his wife Carol began considering home heating options for their detached four-bedroom 1970s house when it …