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Coronavirus: Will £5 billion be enough to save the UK economy?

Sky, 01 Jul 2020
Sky's Ed Conway looks back at the historic 'new deal' of the 1930s, which the UK's post-coronavirus plan is being compared to.

The British government is set to borrow more this year than President Roosevelt did in any year in the 1930s, pouring hundreds of millions into its COVID-19 furlough scheme, welfare support, business grants, and the NHS.

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