UK state support for business and workers reaches new heights

Unprecedented measures for coronavirus crisis include paying 80% of wages, new loans, benefits boost, rent help and VAT deferral

Sunak launches third UK budget in nine days – and the most crucial

Latest emergency coronavirus package poses three huge questions: is it well targeted, is it enough and is it in time?

Coronavirus has shattered the myth that the economy must come first

The world’s attachment to business as usual has caused fatal delay, says Adam Tooze, director of the European Institute at Columbia University

Calls for UK basic income payment to cushion coronavirus impact

MPs, peers and others say the money for all citizens would help them through crisis

UK ‘must spend extra £22bn’ to help workers facing layoffs, urges thinktank

Resolution Foundation proposes new subsidy modelled on maternity pay with warning 1m staff at risk of redundancy

Peacetime constraints ditched in the war for economic survival

Politicians and central bankers are setting aside ideology and orthodoxy to prevent a global collapse, says Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott

All schools to close from Friday; GCSE and A-level exams cancelled – UK Covid-19, as it happened

Thirty-two more people die in England taking UK death toll to 104. This blog is now closed

Grant Shapps discusses rescue package with UK airlines

Sources make clear any assistance will be conditional on ensuring critical routes remain open

Johnson says this is war. But his response to Covid-19 is laughably inadequate

We are facing a depression unless governments go big and fast. But Britain is charging into battle armed only with a peashooter, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The chancellor’s stimulus package doesn’t go nearly far enough

Where is the support for renters, the social care sector, public services or local authorities, asks Labour leadership candidate Keir Starmer

Billions in loans, scrapping of rates – the chancellor’s help for businesses

Rishi Sunak unveiled a package designed to help struggling firms survive the coronavirus outbreak

Chancellor’s £330bn coronavirus package is big – but not big enough

The loans to business can be viewed as just a large sticking-plaster and are not a handout

This crisis calls for massive government intervention: here’s how to do it

The state should step in as payer of last resort for businesses facing shutdown as coronavirus hits them hard, say economics professors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

The Guardian view on the UK’s Covid-19 economic plan: fine sentiment, but lacks details

Editorial: The government is mobilising the power of the state, though it is unclear whether it will be used to help those most in need of assistance during the coronavirus shutdown

Coronavirus UK: £330bn of business loans made available as PM says school closures ‘under continuous review’ – as it happened

Chancellor Rishi Sunak says he will do whatever it takes to protect jobs and incomes as Boris Johnson says ‘we must act like wartime government’. The day’s political developments as they happen