How Sunak’s $150 Billion Coronavirus Aid Package Is Being Rolled Out
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak said he can’t save every job and every business but has vowed to do “whatever it takes” to help U.K. companies and workers cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The result is a support package unprecedented in peacetime Britain: the Office for Budget Responsibility last week estimated the response so far will cost almost 123 billion pounds ($150 billion) in the current fiscal year.