Sunak provides extra £13bn to keep businesses alive Councils will get powers to shut pubs that break Covid rules Liz Truss: Post-Brexit trade deals can help 'turbocharge' the economy Coronavirus latest news: Nottingham heads towards Tier 3 as some non-urgent surgery postponed Barnier says UK and EU have 'huge common responsibility' to avoid no deal Subscribe to The Telegraph Christmas could be at risk unless the Government implements a short-term national lockdown, Labour has suggested. Anneliese Dodds, the shadow chancellor, told BBC that not deploying a circuit breaker now would have an "enormous economic cost" running up to Christmas, with people "changing their consumption behaviour" because they were put off going into towns and city centres. "The tier system so far has not worked to reduce infections," she added. "What we are looking at unfortunately - given the Government doesn't seem to be willing to shift on this when half-term holidays are coming up - what we are looking up to Christmas is an increasingly difficult situation in lots of parts of the country." The three-tiered system created a crisis that was "drawn out and spread across the country" resulting in "many fewer people going out to buy things", she added. Wales' firebreak is the best prospect the nation has at ensuring people can have "company at Christmas", the health minister Vaughan Gething said this morning. Steve Barclay, chief secretary to the Treasury, told the Today programme it was now a "common endeavour" to keep Christmas as close to normal as possible. Yesterday Jason Leitch, Scotland’s national clinical director, claimed that there was no chance of a “normal” Christmas. Prof Leitch told BBC Scotland that while it was too early to say for sure what would happen at Christmas, Scots should “get their digital Christmas ready” Follow the latest updates below.
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