A new campaign launched today (April 20) sees business leaders and politicians from across the UK join forces to lead an economic fightback against Covid-19.

Keep Britain Working will help redeploy workers from struggling sectors to in-demand ones, help people who have lost their jobs find new ones, share and implement the best ideas to help the country keep working and get people back into work.

The launch of Keep Britain Working comes just days after the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicted the UK economy could shrink by 35 per cent, resulting in a total of 3.4 million people becoming unemployed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. This would mean 2m people losing their jobs this spring.

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