we start with the latest evidence of the
economic damage across the UK caused by
the effects of the pandemic in the past
two days alone some 12,000 job losses
have been announced most of them in High
Street retail and aviation two of the
sector's hardest hit by the lockdown
trade unions have accused ministers of
sitting on the sidelines but Boris
Johnson says that while the risk to jobs
is very very serious the Treasury has
protected the livelihoods of 11 million
people now SSP which owns the food
chains upper crust and cafe Rattata says
it could cut 5,000 jobs because of the
sharp fall in passenger numbers at
railway stations and airports the
aerospace giant Airbus says it wants to
cut 1,700 jobs in the UK as part of
plans to close fifteen thousand posts
globally and the consultancy company at
ginger has announced this evening that
it will be making up to 900 job cuts in
the UK and the retailer John Lewis said
today that some of its doors would not
be reopening and Topshop Harrods and the
shirt maker TM Lewin also announced job
losses our business editor Simon Jack
has more details airlines manufacturers
retail the damage is deep and wide and
seems to be getting worse by the day or
even by the hour the announcements of
job losses are coming thick and fast at
the Airbus factory in Broughton there
was a somber mood as people digested
yesterday's announcement that 1,700 UK
jobs will be going it's a great shame to
a lot of people I've got family members
who live here so everybody everywhere is
going to be impacted it's a big part of
the community it's obviously the main
one of the main sources jobs are on
there so I would say if it goes it does
take a bigger impact on the community
the chairman of Airbus UK said its
customers were facing a crisis that
would leave lasting damage and Airbus
had to ensure its own survival look into
the sky I mean this is the the tourism
industry our bloodline our airlines
those are our customers and you know if
they catch a cold we're obviously in the
same situation so this is unprecedented
and we want to be there for the recover
and so we have to cut our cloth
according to our means and it's it's
it's it's tough but we've got to do it's
the right thing to do
with fewer people getting on planes and
trains those stalwarts of airports and
stations upper-crust and cafe right aza
cut 5,000 posts today in Parliament the
leader of the Opposition confronted the
Prime Minister with a grim roll call
that hours later is already out of date
Airbus announced 1,700 job losses
easyJet 1300 job losses TM Lewin and
harvest 800 job losses just yesterday
Prime Minister defended the government
response pointing to a job retention
scheme unprecedented in its scope and
cost but conceded some very tough times
lay ahead we've supported huge sectors
of the UK economy at the cost of 120
billion pattern I'm not going to give a
figure for the number of job losses that
may or may not take place but of course
the risk is very very serious as he
rightly as he rightly says a month from
today employers will have to start
paying an increasing portion of that
cost until the scheme is redrawn at the
end of October one reason perhaps why
job losses are picking up pace there's
been a seismic economic shock to the
global economy and these job losses are
like waves crashing now on UK shores
with alarming severity and frequency the
government's spent tens of billions of
pounds trying to delay this
inevitability but with this flood of new
announcements it's clear they're
struggling to hold back the tide the
government has already spent tens of
billions on keeping dying businesses
alive the Chancellor's focus will now
shift from trying to sustain jobs that
may no longer exist to trying to create
brand new ones
Simon Jack BBC news laws we've heard the
job losses also affect those working in
supply chains often complex and
well-established as well as a range of
supporting businesses our business
correspondent Sarah corker reports from
either side of the Wales England border
near the major Airbus facility at
Broughton on the Welsh English border
Airbus provides highly skilled well-paid
jobs in an area where they can be hard
to come by this huge site makes wings
for commercial aircraft but
two orders have dried up from job losses
here send a ripple effect through this
community everyone our bus job is worth
six jobs in the supply chain so
realistically when you look at a 1700
redundancies that's nearly ten thousand
jobs in the supply chain alone
never mind the local economy and the
edge of the airfield this cafe is
popular with Airbus staff the owner here
Shaun has already had to make four of
her employees redundant and how do you
feel at the moment about everything
that's going on worried always worrying
obviously myself I've got my husband to
think about we've got a little one so
we're all losing out so I think it it's
affecting everybody isn't it from planes
to trains
nearly empty railway stations have left
food outlets like upper-crust
in trouble 5,000 jobs in our at-risk
passenger numbers remain at very low
levels 85 percent down on normal as many
of us continue to work from home an SSP
the owner of upper crust says even by
the autumn it expects to only have 20%
of its stores open and so it must take
action now to protect the long-term
future of the business while on the high
street John Lewis is the latest retailer
to warn some stores will never reopen
for smaller shops in Chester today there
are difficult decisions ahead I think
every town every city particularly in
the north will suffer Chester was
already struggling I've just walked down
here and I've counted 14 empty shop
units and this is in the heart of the
city and the fear is there's worse to
come when the furlough scheme ends James
is an engineer now at risk of redundancy
and three months away from having a baby
and I was about to sign for a mortgage
this week on our new property so it's
massively really everything's been put
on hold so you could be out of a job in
in the next week careful in every city
in every sector businesses are now
cutting costs and jobs to try to survive
this economic crisis seroquel co BBC
news in chester school life to
Westminster and talked to Laura Ginsburg
our political editor Laura we heard the
Prime Minister there mentioning the kind
of spending and schemes that have been
put in place already
what kind of scope does the government
have to do more well Hugh what they
could do but won't do even though it's
happened in some other countries it was
extend that furlough scheme which no
question has supported millions and
millions of people with huge amounts of
taxpayers cash and government borrowing
to try to prop up the economy through
this extraordinary crisis but ministers
are adamant that just can't go on for
more than another few months and it has
to start being wound down because of the
sheer cost and the sheer scale of it
what they have already said they'll do
is we heard from the Prime Minister
yesterday is speed up and accelerate the
kind of big infrastructure projects that
they want as a down payment to improve
the country in the long term but even
though they want to put the pedal down
on the floor there are questions about
really how quickly that can going
bearing in mind how much decisions about
jobs are being made now how much help is
it for example to someone who worries
about having a viable business for their
cafe in Bristol the promise of speeding
up a road that might it might be built
on Merseyside in six months time what we
do know though is a week today the
Chancellor will be outlining what he
hopes will suck up and prevent some of
the pain now as I understand it a couple
of the measures on the table are perhaps
giving a couple of thousand pounds to
employers who create apprenticeships or
a couple of thousand pounds to employers
who create new jobs but there is really
an open question not just what will the
size and shape and speed of the recovery
from all of this looked like but can the
government really come up with measures
that are viable quick enough and
effective enough to fear what many
people in Westminster worry about
happening that the hangover from the
awful
virus health emergency is the kind of
employment that we haven't seen for
generations
Laura many thanks again Laura keansburg
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Westminster