Rishi Sunak enters Number 10 today having made very few promises and said very little in this leadership campaign. He has experience of "profound economic challenges" having steered the economic response to the pandemic lockdowns, creating from scratch the furlough scheme - the state-funded subsidy of the wages of 11 million British workers. The country faced massive unemployment and possible depression from the impact of Covid. His team at the Treasury and HMRC turned around the furlough and self-employment schemes incredibly quickly, helping keep unemployment at record lows when it was expected to hit double ... (full story)