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Review finds testing flaws meant support went to many workers who lost no income but not to others who hadRishi Sunak’s flagship scheme to help the self-employed through the pandemic has handed £1.3bn to workers who saw no loss of income while giving nothing to 500,000 people left without work, new analysis has revealed.In a sign of major flaws in the £12.7bn self-employment income...

There is evidence that scheme under which Berlin tops up wages of those put on short-time working is effectiveGermany’s furlough scheme saves firms from freefallCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt all looked so different for Rishi Sunak three weeks ago. After a bleak early spring in which the economy was sacrificed for health reasons, there were signs that the worst might be...