Rishi Sunak forced to return to UK for crisis talks with business
Rishi Sunak has been forced to cut short a trip to California and fly back to London to draw up an emergency rescue package for hospitality firms hit by mass Christmas cancellations amid the Omicron wave.
The chancellor held crisis talks with struggling firms by video link from the US on Thursday before his flight, after Labour said his absence from the UK was “an insult to British businesses and workers”.
He returns to the Treasury on Friday – a day earlier than he had intended to fly home – under intense pressure to announce emergency financial help.
The scramble came as Covid cases jumped to a historic high in the UK and after England’s chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, saidthat people should limit their social contact in order to have a
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