The Latest Breaking News from Jeremy Hunt

Vow to hike spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2026 in peril, but promise of 3 per cent – a £100bn budget – by 2030 stands

If it wasn’t already clear, it is now: the Chancellor is in total command of economic policy. Jeremy Hunt’s television address yesterday morning followed by his statement to the House of Commons that afternoon laid bare the near-total repudiation of Liz Truss’s plan for growth.

It’s the latest blow for the beer and pub industry after chancellor Jeremy Hunt reversed a planned freeze in the rate of alcohol duty

"We can't lose Martin Lewis, we must protect him at all costs"

The new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has confirmed the Energy Price Guarantee - which is a universal scheme that covers everyone on a variable rate tariff - will be cut from April

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt scrapped plans to cut the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 19%.

This has not been a good week for Liz Truss

Position under Truss not recoverable warns MP who calls her ‘catastrophically incompetent’

The UK’s new Treasury chief has ripped up the government’s economic plan, dramatically reversing most of the tax cuts and spending plans that new Prime Minister Liz Truss announced less than a month ago.

Jeremy Hunt, resurrected from several political deaths, is apparently the safest pair of hands in the Tory party, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Voters in South West Norfolk constituency say the Prime Minister is out of her depth