The Covid Economy: The Unshrinking State - BBC Newsnight

Has Covid-19 changed the way we think about each other, work and the economy? In the first of a series, Newsnight looks at the questions raised by the pandemic around the economy. Subscribe to our channel here: https://goo.gl/31Q53F

The coronavirus pandemic has pushed government borrowing to record levels and sent public debt sky-rocketing. But will it mark a lasting shift in our expectations of what the state does for its citizens?

In the first of a series looking at how the UK economy will change after coronavirus, Newsnight's Business Editor Helen Thomas reports.

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