Tory donor pays £25,000 for dinner with Jeremy Hunt as ball raises £200,000 Photograph of cabinet auctioned for £110,000 at fundraising event while stay in Caribbean beach house fetches £50,000 The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2024
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Budget balancing act moves into the City's spotlight Square Mile on watch for London stock exchange boost from new tax breaks for savers and experts say don't write off 2p income tax cut Evening Standard · Mar 1, 2024
Fourteen years of Tory economics – ‘major mistakes’ and ‘crisis after crisis’ As the chancellor prepares next week’s budget, Labour says it is staring at a dire inheritance. The voters look likely to agree The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2024
Tourism tax: Hopes fade that Jeremy Hunt will axe it in Budget given limited room for tax cuts As London business chiefs issue last minute appeals to the Chancellor to bring back VAT-free shopping for tourists Evening Standard · Mar 1, 2024
Wales warns Jeremy Hunt’s budget could force redraw of its own Cardiff’s finance minister says her 2023 budget could be redundant if the chancellor makes radical tax changes The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2024
Ministry of Defence seeks £3.2bn as costs overrun in Yemen and Ukraine Grant Shapps tells MPs his department’s spending exceeded its allocation in last year’s budget in light of unstable global situation The Guardian - UK · Feb 29, 2024
The Guardian view on budget tax cuts: stealing from the public Editorial: For the chancellor to yield to his rightwing obsessives would be bad economics and bad politics The Guardian - UK · Feb 29, 2024
Hunt scrambles to raise revenue as OBR slashes scope for tax cuts in budget Chancellor considers unexpected tax rises such as abolishing non-dom status after latest forecast The Guardian - UK · Feb 29, 2024
Scrapping non-dom tax status would damage the "international allure" of London's property market, warn agents London’s prime property market could see an exodus of overseas investors if they are made to “feel unwelcome” Evening Standard · Feb 29, 2024
OPINION - Why does London keep getting written out of the Budget storyline? Tourist tax just the latest in a series of Conservative measures seen as anti-London Evening Standard · Feb 29, 2024
Clare Lombardelli named deputy governor of Bank of England Ex-Treasury official and adviser to David Cameron will replace Ben Broadbent, making MPC majority female for first time The Guardian - UK · Feb 29, 2024
Budget 2024: Hunt urged to boost UK economy by fixing ‘broken’ childcare system London business group says clarifying funding for providers could deliver £11bn economic prize by freeing more adults to work The Guardian - UK · Feb 29, 2024
Spring Budget 2024: who’ll be the housing winners and losers in the election year? Mortgages, stamp duty and rent reform could all figure in Jeremy Hunt’s statement Evening Standard · Feb 29, 2024
Hunt considers poaching Labour’s plan to scrap non-domiciled tax rules Chancellor mulling scaling back tax break as last-minute option to generate revenue, after previously criticising policy The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2024 Labour in power faces dire economic inheritance, says Rachel Reeves Shadow chancellor criticises Tory years of failure and says national mission is needed to kickstart economy
The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2024 GB News’s highest-paid Tory MPs – and how much they have received What the channel has paid the likes of Lee Anderson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Esther McVey and what it has got for its money
Evening Standard · Feb 28, 2024 OPINION - Jeremy Hunt's pre-election Budget runs into economic reality Hollywood adores a franchise. The 10 highest-grossing movies of 2022 were all either sequels or reboots and the reason is pretty obvious: return on investment.
The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2024 The Guardian view on food poverty: charities can’t take the state’s place Editorial: Jeremy Hunt should commit to extending household support and funding free school meals for more children
Evening Standard · Feb 27, 2024 Nationwide becomes the latest mortgage lender to up home loan costs More ‘doom and gloom’ for borrowers ahead of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s budget next week
Evening Standard · Feb 27, 2024 Grocery inflation slows to lowest pace since in almost two years The numbers will be a boost to Jeremy Hunt as he puts the finishing touches to a pre-election Budget on March 6
The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2024 Budget 2024: Jeremy Hunt considers new vaping tax and NI cut Levy on vapes could make them unaffordable for children, as IFS warns over unfunded tax cuts
The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2024 Jeremy Hunt warned not to spook markets with unfunded budget tax cuts; US consumer confidence drops – as it happened Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as ING warn the pound could fall by 2% if chancellor misreads the mood of bond investors
The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2024 Most Britons say poor people deserve support. So what do Sunak’s Tories do? Cut, cut, cut Slashing benefits will push even more people into poverty. Neither Labour nor Conservative voters want it, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2024 Jeremy Hunt’s ‘dubious’ financial planning lacks credibility, says IFS Chancellor should resist temptation to announce unfunded tax cuts in March budget, advises leading thinktank
The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2024 Chancellor should axe all budget statements, say manufacturers Make UK says limiting big policy changes to one per parliament will give companies more stability