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Dan Bloom & Mikey Smith & Dave Burke & Elaine Blackburne

15 miserable details hidden in Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement

Before making Thursday's Autumn Statement Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warned he would be "Scrooge". And headlines in his hour-long speech made grim reading as he dealt with the fall-out from Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-budget eight weeks earlier under Liz Truss's leadership.

His warnings of further steep rises in energy bills through to income tax and council tax have already left many households facing cuts in their income. There are also likely to be job losses and a drop in the standard of living by around 7% over the next two years.

But hidden away from the headlines there were a series of more details of where spending was going to be tackled. The Mirror dug deep into the documents and found the hidden footnotes to give an even fuller picture of the cuts ahead. This is what it found:

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