Rishi Sunak
For governments every scrap of revenue is critical, which makes losing between $500bn and $600bn a year to corporate tax dodging hard to stomach, writes Peter Marshall.
The US has overtaken China as the country with the highest number of covid-19 cases globally, topping 82,000. Meanwhile, WHO has said it is seeing “encouraging signs” after infection rates fall in Italy. The UK Government has now extended pay grants to the self-employed.
Families face financial stress, as the disease continues its awful trajectory.
The perils of working from home.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak confirms self-employed with trading profit up to £50,000 to get grants worth 80% of earnings up to £2,500-a-month.
The chancellor Rishi Sunak holds daily press conference on the coronavirus outbreak. A new emergency package to help self-employed workers facing financial difficulties as a result of the coronavirus pandemic is expected to be announced.
In my 12 years representing the freelance community, I have never seen morale so low, writes Matt Dowling.
Chancellor has been warned low-paid are running out of money and need "urgent" help.
Rishi Sunak needs to do more because the self-employed simply cannot rely on benefits to get them through the next few weeks or months, writes Kate Dearden.
PM and chancellor got it right on the economic emergency. Now the focus turns to the NHS.