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'Businesses can't wait for the new normal – it's already here'

Business
Scott Pawley
18 February 2021

Boris Johnson has reached an inflexion point in the battle to protect the nation’s health and wealth.

‘We need to know how businesses will be incentivised, not punished, for helping rebuild the economy’ (Credit: Ha lGatewood/Unsplash)

Thanks to the voices of the government’s scientific advisors, the rates of infection are on a downward path, the pressure on the NHS is gradually dissipating, and the miraculous performance of the vaccination programme is starting to pay dividends.

But now, it’s time to listen to the voices of industry. They are demanding that attention is paid to the hard-pressed owners of British businesses and to the physical and mental health of furloughed and redundant workers.