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THE downfall of Carillion takes a lot of unfortunates with it.
Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington confirms that the government will only provide support for businesses working on private-sector deals for 48 hours.
Firms enmeshed in the collapsing giant’s supply chain will be back of the queue for payment they are owed — meaning misery for hundreds of small businesses and redundancy for those who work for them.
Our economic system is broken – and unless we break with the government’s obsession with short-termist private profit, things are destined to get worse, warns Mercedes Villalba
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
Deep disillusionment with the Westminster cross-party consensus means rupture with the status quo is on the cards – bringing not only opportunities but also dangers, says NICK WRIGHT