UK finance minister Sunak warned ending furlough work payment scheme would risk 2m jobs

The UK's finance minister Rishi Sunak insists the plan, which has cost the UK Treasury almost £35bn (€39bn) so far, cannot last indefinitely. 

Britain’s finance minister Rishi Sunak is putting two million viable jobs in peril by ending his coronavirus jobs support programme too early, risking an unnecessary unemployment crisis, according to a UK think tank.

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) estimates that three million UK-based workers will still be relying on the plan when it ends in October, two-thirds of whom are in roles that would be sustainable if the help was extended into next year.