A new study from the UK’s largest business group underscores the threat posed to millions of livelihoods by a sudden retraction of support for small firms in the weeks ahead.

Four in 10 British pubs won’t survive beyond September unless they get extra support from the government to see them through the lockdown, the industry’s trade body has said.

The quarterly Labour Market Outlook, produced in partnership with The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is one of the most authoritative employment indicators in the UK and provides forward-looking labour market data and analysis on employers’ recruitment, redundancy and pay intentions.

Coronavirus and the latest indicators for the UK economy and society: May 2020 

Office for National Statistics have released their first set of GDP figures for Q1 2020, which show that, with the arrival of the pandemic nearly every aspect of the economy was hit in March, dragging growth to a record monthly fall.

The government is looking to recruit 18,000 contact tracers as part of its "test, track and trace" plan to defeat coronavirus. Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced the drive as part of the next stage of its strategy.