The Latest Breaking News from Jeremy Hunt

Liz Truss poised to drop pledge to increase defence spending, No 10 suggests

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

The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2022

The Standard View: Jeremy Hunt faces mammoth task to sell huge spending cuts

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.

Evening Standard · Oct 18, 2022

Thousands of London pubs could run out of beer as GXO Logistics workers go on strike

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

Evening Standard · Oct 18, 2022

Tory MPs warned of ‘15 years out of power’ if they stick with Liz Truss

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

The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2022

Position of UK's PM, Liz Truss, in doubt after new Treasury chief axes 'Trussonomics'

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.

Radio France Internationale · Oct 18, 2022

Britannia rechained: Liz Truss enters her hostage era

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

The Guardian - UK · Oct 18, 2022

'If I was her I’d pack it in': No comfort for Liz Truss in her own constituency

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

Wales Online · Oct 18, 2022

British PM Truss vows to carry on as her party support dwindles

British Prime Minister Liz Truss warned of tough times ahead after she scrapped her vast tax-cutting plan and said she would carry on to try to put the economy on a stronger footing, defying calls for her resignation.

Reuters · Oct 18, 2022

I’ve known Jeremy Hunt for decades — he stood out for steady determination

To understand Jeremy Hunt’s position as a chancellor who now leads the country in all but name, let me take you to a dusty hot track in the north of Thailand in the late Eighties. Hunt and I were university contemporaries and he inhabited a world of more stellar young…

Evening Standard · Oct 18, 2022

What’s left of the mini-Budget? Bankers bonuses and tax hikes for workers

‘Almost all’ tax plans that have not started to go through parliament are being axed, new chancellor says

The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2022