Earlier this month, The Spectator‘s chairman Andrew Neil announced that we would be handing back the government furlough money. He wrote, ‘Instead of depending on furlough money from taxpayers, I have tasked the editorial and management teams to grow sales of The Spectator to 100,000 as quickly as possible.’ Readers response was phenomenal, with thousands signing up to a Spectator subscription.

Yesterday, The Spectator said it was returning furlough money to the government – and that we instead hoped to sell more subscriptions.