Tension Over Furlough Extension

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced the furlough scheme is to be extended to March, but why now? The scheme will cover the whole UK as England enters a four week lockdown, but the Governments of Scotland and Wales have been critical, saying it should have been extended sooner. Will this new spate of spending help the economy and jobs over winter, or is it coming too late?

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:09.6	Hi, you're listening to
0:14.1	Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast
0:16.1	that gives you an inside look
0:17.5	at the big stories coming out of
0:19.4	Hollywood and Westminster. It is Thursday
0:22.3	the 5th of November. It's 2.17pm. I'm Lindsay Views, a correspondent based at the Scottish
0:28.8	Parliament and today I'm joined by... Nick Erdlia Westminster. Raj Seen-Sundu at home.
0:34.8	Phil Sim at the Scottish Parliament. Hi everyone.
0:38.2	Hello.
0:38.7	Hello. Hello.
0:40.1	So guys, Lucy is still in lockdown so you're stuck with me and Phil helping out
0:44.1	doing a bit of co-hosting this week.
0:46.0	How is everyone tired this week?
0:48.2	Did everyone stay up for the US elections?
0:50.2	I feel really smug about the fact that I didn't.
0:52.4	I went to sleep.
0:53.4	Yeah, I went to sleep.
0:54.7	Because it didn't seem like there would be a result.
0:58.4	We're not that into politics, obviously.
1:00.3	I did the worst of, I did the worst of both things.
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