Read the CBI’s three key principles to the government for living confidently with the virus.
Successful economies are built on confidence. With our economy re-emerging after 16 months of hibernation, confidence and progression are critical. The government’s decision to move England to Step 4 of the roadmap was the right one. But rather than opening-up the economy, the ‘pingdemic’ closed it down.
This was surely not the government’s intention. But it appeared to be the consequence of an internal compromise within the government of competing perspectives. Whilst this has always been present throughout the pandemic, the Step 4 announcement was constructed without consultation with the outside world – firms especially – who could have immediately identified the unintended consequences. Throughout the crisis, a more consultative approach, for example on workplace guidance and JRS, has allowed the government to anticipate outcomes and therefore make better policy, better communicated, and better adopted.
Changes to self-isolation policy introduced in England, as well as in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
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