Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will finally deliver an Autumn Budget this week to lay out precisely how he plans to restore order to Britain’s public finances.
Having succeeded Kwasi Kwarteng on 14 October following the debacle of the latter’s ill-conceived “mini-Budget” of 23 September – which tanked the pound and brought a swift end to the premiership of Liz Truss – Mr Hunt postponed an announcement originally intended for Halloween to buy himself more time.
