Eleanor Pringle

With nowhere to go and no one to see, the British public has been racking up the savings during a year’s worth of lockdowns. However while pub closures have been bemoaned and hairdressers sorely missed, consumers have got used to seeing their cash staying in the bank – an estimated total worth £180bn. Economists are urging shoppers to make the most of businesses reopening and inject some of that money from under the mattress into the parched high street. Indeed Andy Haldane, the Bank of Engla

The pandemic is widening the inequality gap in Norfolk and Waveney. More female workers have faced a 20pc pay cut by taking furlough in order to do the bulk of childcare and experts have warned the shift could exacerbate existing socio-economic imbalances in the long term. Data for Norfolk shows that on average 13pc of the female workforce eligible fo

If an ECG measures the health of a human heart, the FTSE represents that of the British economy. Stock markets are often the first indication that something is amiss - that confidence is falling, that GDP is down, that international trade talks have turned sour. And yet it has been somewhat gamified - boiled down to buyers and sellers, into trading jackets, Hollywood films and free apps. This vital in

Britain has not just broken the budget this year – it has been obliterated. Whether the public coffers have been footing the bill for meals out or paying staff’s wages, Number 11 has dug deep again and again to steer the nation through the pandemic. But it was always clear these funds came with strings attached. And now the suggestions are rolling in for how chancellor Rishi Sunak can claw his way back into the black.