Move follows backlash over taking £4m state handout while paying average £500,000 bonus to partners

One of the UK’s leading accountancy firms has performed a U-turn and will pay back £4.1m in furlough money it received from taxpayers after a backlash about bumper payouts to partners.

BDO, which employs 6,000 people in the UK, said it would be returning the cash to HM Revenue & Customs within days after “recognising the public mood”.

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