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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ben Chu

Are UK businesses facing catastrophe due to vast coronavirus debt burdens?

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T

he coronavirus pandemic has delivered the largest economic shock to the UK economy in three centuries.

And yet, even as their revenues have collapsed, the number of British business insolvencies has, remarkably, fallen, not risen, this year.

This is, in large part, because firms have been able to access special state-backed bank loans.

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