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LABOUR accused the government last night of a “smash-and-grab raid” on struggling businesses over its rule that councils must hand back £1.3 billion of unspent emergency coronavirus grants.
At the start of the nationwide lockdown in March, funding was made available to local authorities to support small hospitality, leisure and retail businesses .
Of the £12.3bn allocated, £11bn has been distributed – but the fund operated on the basis that money not used by August 30 would need to be returned.
PHILIP ENGLISH says military spending will not create the jobs young people need — instead, build an economy based around needs, not profit
LOUISA BULL traces how derecognition, outsourcing and digitalisation reshaped the industry, weakened collective bargaining and created today’s precarious media workforce
