It warns of mass long-term unemployment and hard-hit but viable firms going bust if the worker support scheme comes to an abrupt end on October 31 as planned. About 9.6 million jobs have been supported by the furlough scheme since it was set up to protect workers during the Covid-19 lockdown. It comes as Gordon Brown is launching a radical UK-wide campaign to stop the coronavirus fallout triggering massive unemployment. “That we don’t allow a cliff-edge on October 31, we don’t allow 1.5million more people to be unemployed. Mr Brown today said a partial extension of furlough to focus on part-time work must be considered by the government.

Source: Daily Mirror September 11, 2020 07:30 UTC