This illustrates both the economic carnage inflicted by coronavirus and the Tory failure to boost demand and protect employment. The hollow jobs, jobs, jobs mantra of the Government is really redundancies, redundancies, redundancies and the danger is mounting that Britain will return to the Tory-led devastation of the 1980s. Behind every job lost is a worried worker without a wage and possibly a family, anxious about how they will pay their bills. (Image: AFP via Getty Images)To break the vicious cycle it is vital that saving and creating jobs becomes the Government’s top priority. Cruel betrayalPulling the plug on free TV licences for the majority of over-75s is a grotesque betrayal of our older generation.

Source: Daily Mirror July 09, 2020 20:58 UTC