Jobs Hatchet
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
The New Statesman
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
On today's episode of the New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea look at the Chancellor's post-furlough economic plans and ask whether they go far enough. Then they answer your question on how the government intends to manage unlocking as it rolls out test and trace.
If you are a New Statesman digital subscriber you can get advert free access to this podcast by visiting newstatesman.com/nssubscribers.
Send us your You Ask Us questions at youaskus.co.uk.
If you haven't signed up yet, visit newstatesman.com/subscribe to purchase your subscription.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | There are around 48,000 new cases of lung cancer every year in the UK, but it doesn't affect everyone equally. |
| 0:08.7 | Incident rates are far higher in deprived areas, and there's too often a a postcode lottery when it comes to that |
| 0:14.8 | all important early diagnosis. The New Statesman podcast is sponsored by MSD, a research |
| 0:21.0 | intensive global bio-pharmaceutical company active in several key areas of global health |
| 0:26.4 | including immunization and oncology. They've recorded a special sponsored episode with the New Statesman Podcast in which thought leaders explore |
| 0:34.7 | how the UK can and must tackle health inequalities to deliver early diagnosis and treatment. |
| 0:41.5 | Listen to the episode now. |
| 0:43.0 | Look for lung cancer inequalities in the New Statesman Podcast feed. |
| 0:48.0 | The New Statesman Podcast is sponsored by Barclays, sparking opportunities in your community. |
| 0:56.0 | Through Barclays' life skills, the bank is helping millions of people develop the vital employability and financial skills they need to succeed at work, |
| 1:04.8 | thrive in the digital age and better manage their money. |
| 1:07.9 | With a focus on supporting underserved communities, Berkeley's life skills is being delivered in partnership |
| 1:15.1 | with leading charities and educators like Family Action, Street League, and the Talent Foundry |
| 1:20.9 | to support families, young people and young adults to create a better future. |
| 1:26.0 | Barclays is sparking opportunities in your community through Barclays life skills. |
| 1:32.0 | To find out more, search Barclays communities. On this episode of the news statement podcast we discuss the job support scheme and you ask us why did we unlock over summer if Test and Trace wasn't working. |
| 1:55.0 | So Ritchie Sunak has announced his successor scheme to the Furlow scheme. |
| 2:05.4 | It's called the job support scheme and it's intended to run for six months from the beginning of November. |
| 2:10.7 | The difference between this scheme and the Furlow scheme is quite a big one. This is designed to try and protect all viable jobs rather than try and keep everyone in their jobs but staying at home, which is kind of what the furlough scheme was designed to do. |
| 2:23.7 | To be eligible you have to be able to work at least a third of your normal full-time hours and |
| 2:28.6 | for the hours that you don't work the government and your employer will each pay a third of those remaining wages. |
| 2:35.1 | So that means that you can earn at least 77% of your pay, depending on how many hours you're working. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The New Statesman, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The New Statesman and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.