Peter Hitchens: "The rate Rishi Sunak is handing out money in the furlough scheme is colossal"

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Peter Hitchens says the Government has frightened the population so much “that it is very difficult for it now to argue that it's safe for people to go back to normal” either on public transport or in schools.

The collapse of confidence in currency according to Peter could be an even greater threat, “I think they are going to have to put taxes up. The alternative would have to be for instance, to make immediate serious cuts in the NHS”.

Referring to the Chancellor’s furlough support scheme, Peter Hitchens said “nobody has ever borrowed this amount of money in peacetime before”, suggesting that the rate at which Rishi Sunak is handing out money in the furlough scheme “is so colossal and no one's ever seen anything like it in their lives.”

You can watch the previous debates by clicking on the links below:

Round 1:    • Peter Hitchens clashes with Mike Graham ov...  
Round 2:    • Should the UK's coronavirus lockdown be li...  
Round 3:    • Peter Hitchens: 'Coronavirus lockdown like...  
Round 4:    • Mike Graham v Peter Hitchens: Round 4  
Round 5:    • Columnist Peter Hitchens: Boris Johnson ha...  
Round 6:    • Columnist Peter Hitchens: It is 'extraordi...