Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
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zeconomy shrinks at fastest rate for a century year to keep jobs safe, and he must cancel the pay freeze that is due to hit millions of key workers in April.”
Chancellor Rishi Sunak, due to deliver a Budget on March 3, said: “While there are some positive signs of the economy’s resilience... the current lockdown continues to have a significant impact.
“At the Budget I will set out the next stage of our Plan for Jobs, and the support we’ll provide through the next phase of pandemic.”
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Bridget Phillipson blasted Mr Sunak, saying: “His last-minute decisions and constant chopping and changing over the last year left the UK stuck in a jobs crisis.
“He’s wasted billions on contracts that didn’t deliver while refusing to fix Britain’s broken safety net, and his decision to block a circuit-breaker last year didn’t protect the economy – it helped to crash it.”
MURDER victim Danny Mcclean’s coffin was draped in a tricolour as the dissident republican was buried yesterday.
The 54-year-old from Andersonstown was shot multiple times as he sat in a car parked on North Belfast’s Cliftonville Road on February 2.
He was laid to rest following a funeral at St Teresa’s Church on the Glen Road, West Belfast.
Three men, aged 32, 38 and 46, have so far been arrested and released “unconditionally” during the police investigation. It is believed the victim was “targeted deliberately”.
The killing has been linked to a falling out among dissident republicans.