Jeremy Hunt

CBI annual conference

Budget tax hikes for financial sector would be ‘own goal’, says CBI

Kemi Badenoch

Badenoch: Triple lock is ‘current’ Tory policy and in ‘draft manifesto’

Sir Jeremy Hunt with his arms folded

Former chancellor Hunt calls for action on UK’s ‘mushrooming’ benefits costs

Craig Williams outside Southwark Crown Court

Former MP and aide to Rishi Sunak pleads guilty to election date gambling

Starmer should resign if he ‘can’t do the job’, says Badenoch

King jokes former chancellor should ‘keep trying’ to make Britain ‘great again’

Traitors host Claudia Winkleman among those to be honoured at Windsor Castle

Campaigners and Labour MPs hail Rachel Reeves’ decision to scrap two-child limit

UK can ‘defy’ gloomy forecasts despite productivity problems, says Chancellor

AstraZeneca pauses £200m expansion in Cambridge

Parents running ‘gauntlet of horror’ to access Send support – Motherland actor

Young people being ‘overdiagnosed’ with mental ill health, says former health se...

Young people being ‘overdiagnosed’ with mental ill health – Hunt

Fewer people claimed non-dom tax status in UK ahead of Government crackdown

Sir Ian McKellen and Sienna Miller among acting stars in Wimbledon Royal Box

Farage plans to charge non-doms £250,000 fee which will be given to poor

Jeremy Hunt calls for ‘urgent re-examination’ of Lucy Letby case
The former health secretary called for the Criminal Cases Review Commission to ‘speed up their normally painfully slow process’.
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Road tax: check my car and vehicle tax online as UK motorists face new DVLA char...

Treasury denies breaking law over ‘black hole’ in public finances

Tory membership at lowest level on record, leadership results show

Shell calls for ‘certainty’ after Labour increases oil and gas windfall tax

‘Budget not something I want to repeat ever again’ – Reeves

Budget ‘biggest-ever assault’ on competitiveness, says former chancellor Hunt

Jeremy Hunt: NHS ‘most micro-managed healthcare system in world’

Budget watchdog finds £9.5bn shortfall in previous government’s spending plans

Reeves pledges ‘more pounds in people’s pockets’ after warnings of tough choices

Hunt accused of trying to ‘blame the referee’ over OBR ‘black hole’ review

Reeves hints at business rates reforms but declines to rule out fuel duty hike
The Chancellor also faced calls to reverse a cut to the winter fuel payment.
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Starmer is a ‘working person’ says Chancellor as tax rise questions persist

What the papers say – October 25

Reeves confirms change to debt rule and warns of higher taxes as Budget looms

Key questions over ‘persnuffle’ kerfuffle as Reeves confirms debt rule change

Reeves ‘WhatsApps’ Hunt and is in contact ‘regularly’ with Blair and Brown

Planned free schools in doubt as Government launches review

Nick Robinson apologises for Jeremy Hunt name blunder

Independent filmmakers to get 53% tax relief on production costs

Miriam Margolyes recalls BBC furore after sweary comments about Jeremy Hunt

Labour Government could have a budget surplus of £39 billion, Jeremy Hunt claims

Reeves defends ‘tough decisions’ as Labour showdown over winter fuel cut looms

Reeves pledges investment to ‘rebuild Britain’ will feature in Budget

Senior Tory Brady lifts lid on downfall of prime ministers in new memoir

‘Fiscal lock’ lacks oversight of changes to tax and spending rules, Tories claim

Treasury ‘trashed’ public health plans in 2015, says former health secretary

Previous government should have reviewed spending plans, says top civil servant

‘Woeful budgeting’ in Home Office causing repeated overspends on asylum – IFS

Higher borrowing makes scrapping two-child benefit cap unaffordable – minister

Parents may not get first choice of funded childcare space, Phillipson warns

Fact check: Inflation was 3.4% when the Conservatives took power and is 2% now

UK businesses say ‘worst yet to come’ after Chancellor flags spending shortfall

Swinney: ‘Appalling’ state of UK finances will mean tough decisions for Scotland

What was behind the Chancellor’s statement and are tax rises more likely?

Cuts for pensioner benefits as Reeves blames £22bn black hole on Tories

Jeremy Hunt: Chancellor should stop ‘trash-talking’ UK economy

Unions welcome public sector pay hikes as Hunt accuses Reeves of caving in

Reeves warns of ‘difficult decisions’ on tax, blaming £22bn black hole on Tories

Labour will make ‘tough choices’ on public finances, Streeting says

Rachel Reeves expected to unveil £20 billion hole in public finances

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