03-04-2021 | RO-AR Briefing (ßeta)by Chris Warburton3 April 2021Headlines : -> Households pay down debt through winter lockdown – Credit Connect -> Consumers paid off £1.2bn of debt in final month of full lockdown – Credit Connect -> Credit card borrowing falls a fifth, a new record, despite more lockdown pick-me-ups – CCR -> How to Get Better at Killing Bad Projects -> Home working – The rise of working from home | Special report -> Beating expectations – British firms are adapting to lockdowns—and confounding forecasters | Britain -> The Red Wall reconsidered – The truth behind the Tories’ northern strongholds | Britain -> US threatens tariffs on UK exports over digital services tax | International trade -> Mastercard fined £31m for breaching competition law