Autumn Statement fails to revive Tory fortunes
"It wasn’t a gamechanger because I don’t think the game can be changed", one Tory MP is reported to have said.
Tag: Jeremy Hunt
Do the public praise or blame Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt when it comes to inflation?
Two-thirds of Brits think Sunak and Hunt’s actions have contributed towards difficulties facing the economy in the first place.
Have you been mis-sold an autumn statement?
Concern that the British public may have been misled on the fundamentals of the autumn statement has started to grow.
John McDonnell’s golden budget rule doesn’t bode well for the chancellor
"The louder the cheering on the day, the greater the disappointment by the weekend."
Welfare reforms branded a ‘cynical attack on disability benefits’
The Chancellor said many unemployed people ‘can and want to work’ but the ‘system makes that too hard’.
Sunak bamboozled by Starmer question ahead of autumn statement
"If a labourer or a care worker is forced to wait a year for an operation, how are they supposed to help grow the economy?"
A reminder of what a UN rapporteur said about the UK benefit system in 2018
Philip Alston said the benefits system is driven by the desire to get across a simple message that the state “no longer has your back”.
Hunt warns against fuelling inflation but hints at tax cuts for businesses
The Chancellor seemed to downplay speculation that income tax could be reduced in his autumn statement on Wednesday.
Some brass neck: Jeremy Hunt says changing the law for Rwanda ‘is democratic’
The self-proclaimed party of law and order is at it again, after Jeremy Hunt stretched the definition of the word 'democratic'.