From overseeing mass fraud to messing up furlough, the chancellor’s mistakes are many. It’s amazing his popularity held so long, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
, the scheme “can account for between 8% [and] 17% of all new [Covid-19] infections” during the period in which the scheme was active, . But it did yield a great photo op, in which everyone’s favourite ex-hedge funder put in a shiftNo Labour chancellor could have got away with wasting such vast sums. No politician should get off the hook for enacting policies that make people ill.
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