The Latest Breaking News from Jeremy Hunt

The Chancellor told MPs on the Treasury Committee that if households reduce their energy usage by 15% they could save £500 per year on bills

Chancellor says he or Treasury was not source of alleged briefing and he did not support ‘moving away’ from Brexit agreement

’We do need people to change their behaviour’ chancellor says – after Truss government rejected campaign to cut use

London (AFP) - Finance minister Jeremy Hunt on Wednesday defended the UK's post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, despite growing criticism about its economic impact, and rejected claims he was pushing for closer European ties.

The controversial status once held by the Prime Minister's wife allows wealthy UK residents not to pay tax on their overseas income

Jeremy Hunt has come under fire for refusing to abolish the arrangement for those who live in the UK but pay no tax on their offshore income.

The cost-of-living crisis and new staffing costs have been pushing schools in England into financial trouble. So school leaders were relieved to hear of an increase to their budget in the government’s autumn statement, delivered on November 17.

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But chancellor insists ‘I do not support, I have never contemplated’ tearing up Boris Johnson’s threadbare deal

He issued a carefully worded denial that he was behind a story suggesting the Government favoured a Swiss-style deal.

Tom Waters, a senior economist at the IFS, says Hunt’s approach has been to freeze ‘everything he can get his hands on’