Jeremy Hunt doubles down on ‘£100k a year doesn’t go far’ claim

Jeremy Hunt told BBC's Kuenssberg on Sunday that ‘even on those higher salaries, people are feeling under pressure’. Photograph: Jeff Overs/BBC/AFP/Getty Images

Jeremy Hunt has doubled down on his claim that earning £100,000 a year “doesn’t go as far as you might think” for people in his Surrey constituency, after he was criticised for being out of touch.

The chancellor had previously tweeted that the sum was “not a huge salary” for people in South West Surrey. The median salary for a full-time worker last year was £34,963 and in Surrey it is £42,000.