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Govt 'letting us bleed' agents tell MP at TTG roundtable

Government
Gary Noakes
10 March 2021

Agents have spoken of the extreme lengths they have gone, including moving home, to mitigate the financial devastation wrought by the lack of government support for travel during the pandemic.

Agents used the TTG roundtable to put forward their case for more government support

Three agents spelled out how the crisis had affected their lives over the past year at a TTG roundtable, which included Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine MP.

Deben Travel managing director Lee Hunt said that while his business of 10 years was “very viable”, he had been forced to sink his personal savings into operations.

"I have nothing," he said. "I had to move out of my home at the end of February because I could no longer afford the rent. There has been a huge personal impact which I think the government overlooked when they just classed us as businesses.”