The Latest Breaking News from Jeremy Hunt

If his family and friends really cared about Jezza’s mental health they would persuade him to quit

Jeremy Hunt offered ‘nothing for working people’, say Conservative Democratic Organisation members

No one wants Jeremy Hunt to be Chancellor. Labour doesn’t, obviously — the party has its own candidate, albeit with largely the same spending plans and fiscal rules. Rishi Sunak doesn’t — he wants to be his own finance minister. The Tory Right still pines for Truss-onomics, the SNP doesn’t…

Tories and Labour boosted by mega-donors, and fundraising gap between two parties appears to be narrowing

Hunt has revealed plans to tackle the ‘unfairness’ in the current Child Benefit system

Toughest outlook for public finances for 80 years means next government must find tens of billions in cuts or tax rises, says leading thinktank

Changes have been announced to the child benefit system that could leave half a million families better off

Labour says chancellor’s ambition to eventually abolish NI would cost £46bn a year, and party questions how move would be paid for

PM says ‘people trust me on these things’ and refuses to be drawn on whether government would forgo entire £46bn raised from measure