We are entering a critical period for the economy. Tuesday marks the start of meteorological autumn, and the autumn will bring a series of challenges for the economy.
Will most children go back to school, thus freeing parents to return to the workplace? What will be the unemployment fallout of the ending of the furlough scheme, which Rishi Sunak is under growing pressure to extend? And is a government that wings it on most things prepared to wing it towards a no-deal Brexit, piling uncertainty and disruption on a fragile economy?
I shall keep that list of questions as an aide-memoire as we move through the coming weeks. In the meantime, Tuesday also marks the start of the final month of the third quarter, a
