Rishi Sunak has confirmed that millions of public sector workers would be hit with a cruel pay freeze. Updating the country on the bleak outlook for the British economy, the Tory Chancellor attempted to play divide and rule with the frontline workers who kept Britain safe through the pandemic.
A grim-faced Mr Sunak told the Commons: "Our health emergency is not over and our economic emergency has only just begun." He also slashed Britain's support to the world's most desperate - cutting foreign aid as the virus continues to destabilise the globe.
Mr Sunak said that the OBR had predicted that the economy will contract by 11.3% this year - "the largest fall in output for 300 years".