Magic money tree has propped us up, but it is due to be felled soon

摘要

Back in September, a consortium of printing industry trade bodies gloomily wrote to the chancellor Rishi Sunak warning him that 3,000 print business would be at risk of sinking without a trace if lockdown restrictions weren't eased and the industry didn't receive some form of targeted relief. Well, five months on and despite neither being forthcoming from Westminster - although the furlough scheme and other support packages were extended for all - the sector bodies' worst fears have, fortunately, not come to pass.