Fiscal support continues, austerity is not even on the horizon

The £30bn (1.4% of GDP) of extra measures announced today by the Chancellor may go some way to speeding up the economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis and limiting the long-term hit to unemployment. But we still doubt that GDP will return to its pre-crisis level until early in 2022.

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