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Government spending budget set

to be published next month

LABOUR Rishi Sunak will
set out a one-year review of the
government's spending plans next
month as he seeks to tackle the
economic crisis caused by corona-
virus.
The Treasury has announced
a 2021-22 Spending Review will
be published on 25 November, as
the government prioritises its re-
sponse to COVID-19 and strives to
protect jobs.
It had previously been expected
that the government would set out
a multi-year spending review, but the UK by setting budgets for next the NHS, schools and infrastruc-
those plans have been thrown off year, with a total focus on tackling ture.
course by the coronavirus crisis. COVID and delivering our 'Plan for "We'll make sure these areas cru-
Mr Sunak said: "In the current Jobs'.
environment its essential that we "Long-term investment in our cial to our economic recovery have
provide certainty. country's future is the right thing their budgets set for further years
"So we'll be doing that for de- to do, especially in areas which are so they can plan and help us build
partments and all of the nations of the cornerstone of our society like back better."
Lockdown pressure grows after

highest death toll since May Sir Keir Starmer involved in road collision with cyclist

THERE were 367 deaths However on Wednesday morn- POLICE are investigating a under caution. added.
linked to the virus recorded on ing the environment secretary, road collision involving Sir Keir They added that the male cyclist The Met Police said it was alerted
Tuesday 27 October, and nearly George Eustice, who is doing the Starmer, which saw a cyclist taken suffered a minor injury to his arm by the London Ambulance Service
23,000 more cases. interview rounds on behalf of the to hospital. and was taken to hospital by ambu- at about 12.20am to a report of a
It said that the SAGE scientists government, has said tiered re- The Labour leader is understood lance "as a precaution". collision between a cyclist and a car
including chief scientific adviser strictions for local areas have been to have been driving in the Kentish A spokesman for the Labour in Grafton Road.
Sir Patrick Vallance are pushing introduced in a “timely way” and a Town area of north London when leader said: "Keir was involved in a "The driver of the car had stopped
for stricter lockdown rules that ap- national lockdown is “not appro- the incident happened around minor road traffic accident on Sun- at the scene and exchanged details
ply nationwide and argue that the priate”. midday on Sunday 25 October. day. "He spoke to a British Trans- with the cyclist but had left before
whole country will have to be put Dr Yvonne Doyle, medical direc-
under the strictest restrictions by tor of Public Health England, last A spokesman for Sir Keir said he port Police officer who attended officers arrived," the force said in a
mid-December. night warned the rising death toll stayed at the scene until an ambu- the scene and swapped details with statement.
The forecast being circulated from Covid-19 was likely to 'con- lance arrived and reported the in- the officer and the other individ- Officers from the Roads and
through Whitehall predicts deaths tinue for some time' because of the cident at a police station later that ual involved." "Since the incident, Transport Policing Command were
will hit 500 a day and 25,000 peo- spike in cases. It can take infected day. The Met Police said the driver Keir has also been in touch with investigating the collision, the
ple could be in hospital with the vi- patients several weeks to fall se- was not arrested nor interviewed the other individual involved," he statement added.
rus by the end of November, caus- verely ill, meaning the consequenc-
ing Britain's Covid curve to look es of Britain's spiralling outbreak
like a 'lampshade'. are only just starting to be seen. Post-furlough unemployment 'hits young and ethnic minorities'

The think tank's report found
that while more than half of those
Home Office: Migrant minimum who had been furloughed had re-
turned to work, a third were still on
salary lowered by £10,000 full or partial furlough last month.
Only 43% of those who had lost
their jobs since March had found
MINISTERS have quietly Experts who spotted the change new work by September.
made changes to the £35,800 min- said it was the “final nail in the cof- For young people the figure fell
imum salary for migrants to settle fin” for the Conservatives’ target to to 33% and for those in hard-hit
in the UK, the Home Office has get annual net migration down to sectors like hospitality and leisure
confirmed. tens of thousands. it was 36%. Kathleen Henehan, a
Under the rules for Boris John- The £35,800 salary threshold researcher at the think tank, said:
son’s new points-based immigra- was introduced in 2011 by Theresa POLICE and ethnic minor- population. The Treasury said its "The first eight months of the
tion system published on Thursday May when she was home secretary ity workers were more likely to be wage support schemes had helped Covid crisis have been marked by
22 October, the threshold will be as part of the effort to meet the made unemployed post-furlough, to protect millions of jobs. an almighty economic shock and
lowered to £25,600. according to a new report. The government's Job Reten- unprecedented support that has
Unskilled migrants on salaries of commitment set by David Camer- A survey of about 6,000 adults by tion Scheme initially covered up cushioned the impact in terms of
£20,480 but with enough points to on – something the Government the Resolution Foundation found to 80% of an individual's wages if people's livelihoods. "But the true
qualify to take jobs in the UK where was never able to achieve. 19% of 18-24 year olds who were they were placed on furlough and nature of Britain's jobs crisis is
there is a shortage of workers, will Oxford University’s Migration furloughed during lockdown were unable to work. But Chancellor Ri- starting to reveal itself."
also be entitled to settle after six Observatory, which identified the unemployed in September. shi Sunak began winding down the "Worryingly, fewer than half of
years and become citizens. The change in the 507-page rulebook, For black, Asian and minority scheme from September and it will those who have lost their jobs dur-
rules will come into force on De- said it was “the final nail in the cof- ethnic workers the figure was 22%, be replaced with the less generous ing the pandemic have been able to
cember 1. fin of the net migration target”. compared to 9% for the general Job Support Scheme next month. find work since," she added.