The Latest Breaking News from Jeremy Hunt

Free childcare plan in chaos as funding for Tories’ key pledge unravels

Parents face missing out on free support at eleventh hour due to funding disarray

The Independent UK · Jan 6, 2024

Chancellor unsure if Government can afford to announce new tax cuts

Jeremy Hunt was speaking to reporters as the rate of national insurance was cut from 12% to 10%.

Evening Standard · Jan 6, 2024

Hunt issues tax warning as cut in national insurance takes effect

Chancellor says while reduction to 10% will bring ‘significant relief’ pre-pandemic levels of tax can’t be achieved in one go

The Guardian - UK · Jan 6, 2024

Rishi Sunak tax cuts won’t ease burden, economists warn, as national insurance rate drops

The Institute for Fiscal Studies says personal taxes are rising despite much-hyped Tory tax cuts

The Independent UK · Jan 5, 2024

550,000 more Londoners to be dragged into paying income tax higher rate due to threshold freeze, warn Lib-Dems

Nearly a million more people in the capital and wider South East will also be brought into paying Income Tax by the threshold freeze policy

Evening Standard · Jan 3, 2024

Six things to watch in 2024 global economy, from tax cuts to AI

The Israel-Hamas war could broaden, and many developing countries are on a path to crisis

The Guardian - UK · Jan 2, 2024

Government admits criticised new childcare policy is ‘no easy task’ to implement

Exclusive: As the government rolls out registration for new childcare hours, Labour warns Tories’ pledges are ‘meaningless’ to parents unable to find childcare

The Independent UK · Jan 2, 2024

Tories have plenty of weak spots – and dislike years that end in four

Labour will be going on the attack, mindful of having come to power in 1924, 1964 and 1974

The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2023

Britain is stuck in a doom loop: the system is rigged against growth. That needs to change

UK’s pension regime makes investment nigh-on impossible. A radical reform under Labour would turbo-charge the economy

The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2023

The Observer view on abolishing inheritance tax: a handout to the wealthy

If enacted in Jeremy Hunt’s spring budget, the move would provide a windfall for the richest at the expense of less affluent people

The Guardian - UK · Dec 30, 2023