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'A lot of us won't make it to the other side'

Government
Will Payne
9 September 2021

Claire Moore, owner of Peakes Travel Elite, has told the BBC a lot of travel industry companies "aren’t going to make it" following the tapering off of furlough support at the end of September. 

Peakes boss Claire Moore said it was "heartbreaking" having to make members of her team redundant

Moore said the "hardest part" of the last 18 months was having to make seven members of her team redundant - leaving the company with four employees all still on flexi-furlough.

"It was heartbreaking after nurturing an award winning team, definitely the hardest moment of my career," she told BBC Breakfast on Thursday (9 September). "I was hoping that 18 months on we’d certainly had brought some of them back, but that is definitely not the case."