Chancellor Rishi Sunak had days to design the furlough scheme. Once lockdown became mandatory in spring 2020, it was a race against the clock to figure out how to protect against mass unemployment while still keeping the incentive for people to return to work when it was legal to do. Throughout Covid, furlough was envied
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