For the thousands of small businesses, which have been the beneficiary of many of the Covid-related measures announced by the government over the past three months, the landscape after September is particularly treacherous.
The single biggest unknown is the extent to which they will be able to resume business. Its unlikely international tourists will resume arriving.
But will people be back in their offices, going to dinner in restaurants, having coffee meetings, or even travelling between cities? Or will there be a second wave of infections that sees us retreat to more stringent rules on social interaction.
And what will that uncertainty mean for confidence and spending?
The unknowns are compounded by a lack of clarity about what will …
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