Let’s get fiscal: Can Sunak bury Corona in cash?

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government · Mar 13, 2020 · 32m

Hey, big spender: was this the Corona budget or the End of Austerity budget? Is Rishi Sunak doing the right thing for businesses that can’t handle the unprecedented pressures of the Coronavirus? Has he bottled Net Zero on carbon? The perils of badly-drawn business interventions. Why this government is now running on Labour’s fiscal rules from 2010 — the ones they said would bankrupt the country. And can you regenerate a whole country from a highly controlling centre?

“This kind of support can be addictive to businesses. When the next crisis arrives, will the chancellor be able to tell them…