June dates for DWP cost of living payments, benefits and pensions Help available as more than 10m Britons struggling with bills, according to new study The Independent UK · Jun 22, 2023
July dates for DWP cost of living payments, benefits and pensions Food prices increasing at their fastest rate in almost 45 years, ONS has warned The Independent UK · Jun 22, 2023
Bank to hike rates again as Rishi Sunak struggles to tackle rising inflation Government under fire over mortgage crisis as Bank set to hike rates again The National (Scotland) · Jun 22, 2023
Trigger recession to tame inflation, say economists – as Bank set to hike interest rates ‘There’s no other way around it’, says Jeremy Hunt adviser on looming UK recession The Independent UK · Jun 22, 2023
Interest rates – live: UK ‘set for recession’ as under-fire bank chief attacks businesses Bank raises UK interest rate to 5 per cent from 4.5 per cent The Independent UK · Jun 22, 2023
Hunt admits ‘groupthink’ led to ‘narrowness of thinking’ over pandemic preparedness Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said he regretted not challenging ‘groupthink’ in the UK’s preparations while he was health secretary The Independent UK · Jun 22, 2023
Rishi Sunak says he feels ‘deep moral responsibility’ to cut inflation Prime minister to say it is imperative he ‘hold his nerve’ in commitment to half inflation The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2023
Let’s not pretend Labour has found a way to defuse the ‘mortgage timebomb’ Starmer and his party seem to have concluded direct support for homeowners cannot be justified – but it’s smart politics to be seen to take on the banks The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2023
Labour piles pressure on Sunak with plan to prevent ‘mortgage catastrophe’ Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves says party would force banks to take a range of steps to protect borrowers The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2023
Labour would force banks to help struggling borrowers to diffuse ‘mortgage bomb’ Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was accused by his Labour shadow Rachel Reeves of ‘standing by’ as millions struggle. The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2023
'Bank of England is fighting economic firestorm caused by Tory arsonists running country' In the face of this growing disaster, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has acted like a rabbit transfixed by the headlights of a super truck Daily Mirror · Jun 21, 2023
Tories inflicting 'living nightmare' of rampant inflation and soaring mortgages on UK With another Bank of England rate hike predicted for today, the Government is accused of being out of ideas and clueless about people’s financial predicament Daily Mirror · Jun 21, 2023
Jeremy Hunt admits 'one thing' might have slowed Covid - but ministers thought they 'knew best' The former Health Secretary told the Covid-19 Inquiry that Britain wrongly prepared for flu and mistakenly assumed herd immunity was inevitable Daily Mirror · Jun 21, 2023
Rishi Sunak warned of ‘serious shock’ for mortgage holders as Bank of England poised to raise interest rates Experts warn 1.4m homeowners will see a fifth of their disposable income wiped out by soaring mortgage rates The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2023
Evening Standard · Jun 21, 2023 Covid Inquiry: UK could have avoided lockdowns with quarantine, says Hunt The UK’s first Covid lockdown may have been avoided if the country had put more effort into quarantining at the start of the pandemic, former health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2023 Flu-based pandemic prep meant herd immunity was seen as ‘inevitable’ – Hunt Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said he regretted not challenging ‘groupthink’ in the UK’s preparations while he was health secretary.
The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2023 Has Rishi Sunak been taking honesty lessons from Boris Johnson? The speaker had to step in after the PM’s claims about the economy stretched the credulity of at least one member at PMQ
Daily Mirror · Jun 21, 2023 Interest rate hikes could see 1.4million Brits lose 20% of disposable income The Bank of England is expected to raise the base rate - which influences interest rates lenders charge for mortgages, loans and other types of credit - again tomorrow in an effort to curb inflation
The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2023 UK government debt rises above 100% of GDP for first time since 1961 In blow to Rishi Sunak’s plans to cut taxes before general election, net debt reached £2.6tn at of end of May
The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2023 July dates for DWP cost of living payments, benefits and pensions Food prices increasing at their fastest rate in almost 45 years, ONS has warned
The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2023 June dates for DWP cost of living payments, benefits and pensions Help available as more than 10m Britons struggling with bills, according to new study
The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2023 Watch live as Dowden and Hunt give evidence on pandemic preparation to Covid inquiry Watch live as Oliver Dowden and Jeremy Hunt give evidence to the UK’s Covid inquiry on Wednesday 21 June.
The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2023 Tories face ‘blue wall’ wipeout from mortgage time bomb Backlash from mortgage holders could see one in three Tories ousted, as Rishi Sunak urged to act
The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2023 Bank of England must ‘create recession’ to fight high inflation, Hunt advisor says, as mortgage rates rise again – as it happened Member of Jeremy Hunt’s economic advisory council says BoE must create “uncertainty and frailty”, after UK headline inflation was unchanged at 8.7% in May
Daily Mirror · Jun 20, 2023 'George Osborne is either utterly deluded or a shameless knave' Rejecting obvious evidence that his spending cuts weakened Britain’s health and social care services before Covid is the self-denial of an arrogant Conservative