Rishi Sunak cannot just hope other big firms will follow Primark's example | Nils Pratley

Declining ‘job retention bonus’ was honourable and underlined £9.4bn scheme’s shockingly poor designRishi Sunak, the chancellor, readily conceded last week that there would be a “dead weight” cost to his policy of offering firms a £1,000 bonus for every employee recalled from furlough and kept in employment until the end of next January. That weight is the waste of rewarding firms for doing what they would have done anyway as the economy reopens.So it is