Business leaders have called for more financial help from the government to support crisis-hit companies as ministers warned that the latest lockdown in England could last longer than four weeks.
Carolyn Fairbairn, leader of the CBI employers’ organisation, on Sunday described the latest lockdown as a “body blow”, while Helen Dickinson of the British Retail Consortium said the new measures would cause “untold damage to the high street in the run-up to Christmas”.
Prime minister Boris Johnson is expected to face criticism from his own MPs when he sets out the details of the new curbs in a House of Commons statement on Monday — ahead of a Tory rebellion when they are put to a vote on Wednesday.
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