The Latest Breaking News from Jeremy Hunt

Budget 2023 in graphs from fuel duty cut to energy price cap

Fuel duty cut? Energy bills support extended? Here are the figures behind Jeremy Hunt’s measures

The Independent UK · Mar 15, 2023

The Guardian view on a Tory budget: austerity by another name

Editorial: Jeremy Hunt’s politics were made clear by his decision to prioritise motorists over nurses, doctors and teachers

The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2023

Budget 2023: Senior Tories call for rethink on corporation tax rise to boost growth

Jacob Rees-Mogg called for ‘low tax rates with few exclusions’ for businesses.

Evening Standard · Mar 15, 2023

Budget pension shake-up is £4bn tax giveaway for wealthy, critics say

Jeremy Hunt criticised for scrapping lifetime allowance and increasing annual contribution cap

The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2023

‘650,000 including surgery patients could lose support under welfare reforms’

A think tank has said reforms must be implemented slowly as there will be ‘significant winners but also losers’.

The Independent UK · Mar 15, 2023

Swinney calls Budget a ‘missed opportunity’ despite £320m for Scotland

Deputy First Minister says Chancellor should have taken more action to increase Scottish budget

Insider UK · Mar 15, 2023

Hunt’s disability plans put 1 million people at risk of losing £350 a month, IFS says

Charities and disability campaigners say chancellor’s budget proposals are more ‘stick than carrot’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2023

Beware Hunt’s hype. There’s more poverty ahead and his budget did nothing to change that

The statement will be remembered for the childcare pledge, but there was nothing to meet the scale of Britain’s economic malaise, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2023

UK economy will take more than a year to recover to pre-Covid level, says OBR

Jeremy Hunt’s efforts to boost growth unlikely to prevent largest fall in living standards on record

The Guardian - UK · Mar 15, 2023

Key workers say they were 'forgotten' in Jeremy Hunt's budget as they protest in London

Members of the National Education Union attended the Save Our Schools demo, marching from Speakers’ Corner to Trafalgar Square at start of two-day walkout

Daily Mirror · Mar 15, 2023