The Latest Breaking News from Jeremy Hunt

Plans are afoot to cut government borrowing with the economy on the brink of recession and the highest inflation for decades

UK faces collapse in living standards, higher bills, tax hikes and increased unemployment

The Child Poverty Action Group said it would be "outrageous" to ask vulnerable people to shoulder the UK’s stricken public finances.

Record View: Hunt will undoubtedly try to blame the war in Ukraine and insist inflation is causing governments around the world to make savings.

Esther McVey, who served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions between 2015 and 2018, told the Commons that if the government has enough cash for HS2, it should not need to raise taxes

The eagerly awaited autumn financial statement from UK prime minister Rishi Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt includes a key ingredient: a report from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on the predicted overall effects of the government’s policies on the economy. This is something the Liz Truss government studiously avoided…

Liz Truss’s short-lived government presided over an even shorter-lived economic experiment in “Trussonomics”. As investors responded to September’s mini-budget by demanding higher interest premiums to purchase UK debt, the government was unable to execute its plans. Truss was reduced to a helpless bystander as her new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, started…

The siren call of climate-burning expansion bewitches British politics. More of the same will emerge in the autumn statement, says Tim Jackson, professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey

"Charities are in the most precarious position I can remember.”

SOARING energy bills sent UK inflation to its highest level for 41 years in October as the cost-of-living crisis continues to hit households,…

Chancellor says he will make difficult decisions in Thursday’s budget