What happens when lockdown ends?
Data from the ONS released today has revealed that the poorest are dying of Covid-19 at double the rate of people in the richest areas.
And, while measures introduced to fight the economic impact have helped in the short term, they will reverberate for years, and it is predicted that it will be the poorest who will again feel the effects the strongest.
What will happen when schemes like the government furlough end?
Or perhaps more pertinently - how long can the government afford to keep them up?
Business Editor Helen Thomas reports, and Kirsty Wark is joined by former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine, General-Secretary of the Trades Union Congress Frances OβGrady, and Chair of the Treasury Select Committee Mel Stride MP.
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