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Wednesday briefing: The chancellor has an unexpected windfall – how will he use it in today’s budget?

In today’s newsletter: His autumn statement was all about repairing the damage of the Truss government. What will Jeremy Hunt’s first budget entail?

The Guardian - UK

Labour MP Florence Eshalomi ‘disappointed’ as BBC Parliament confuse her with another black female London MP

‘[The BBC] emailed their apologies but I wonder why they keep mistaking me for other colleagues?’ the MP said

Evening Standard

OPINION - Rishi Sunak is playing a cunning — and morally dubious — double game

Tomorrow, as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivers his first Budget speech, he will be faced across the Despatch Box by Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves. Yet his true opponents will be the ghosts of Conservatism’s recent past: Boris Johnson and the ethical crash that ended his shambolic premiership;…

Evening Standard

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When is Jeremy Hunt’s budget speech 2023?

The chancellor is contending with rocketing inflation, mass industrial action and a cost-of-living crisis

The Independent UK

What Jeremy Hunt’s ‘back to work’ budget this week could mean for you

There could be some big changes on the way on Wednesday

Wales Online

Tories who backed Liz Truss should apologise for £7,000 mortgage hikes, says Sadiq Khan

Startling research by Labour found some mortgage holders are being forced to find an extra £642 every month in the wake of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's botched economic experiment

Daily Mirror

The Guardian view on the budget: no easy fixes for a broken Britain

Editorial: Jeremy Hunt has little to offer a country battered by austerity and venal politics

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Jeremy Hunt’s 2023 budget: five things to look out for

The chancellor is unlikely to make giveaways next week, but he could offer more help with energy bills

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss refuses to say sorry for economic turmoil caused by mini-budget

‘I am prepared to take responsibility for things I knew about and can foresee but not things I don’t know about,’ ex-PM says

The Independent UK

Rupa Huq’s Labour suspension for saying Kwasi Kwarteng ‘superficially Black’ is lifted

Exclusive: West London MP says she has completed ‘anti-racism and bias training’ after having whip restored

Evening Standard

The mini-Budget is still inflicting maximum pain

The economy is picking up more quickly than feared and may even give recession the swerve. But that is despite, not because, of the mini-Budget mayhem.

Evening Standard

Nigella Lawson says Liz Truss should lug 'Jenga' lectern 'everywhere she goes, forever'

Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson said the ex-PM should be made to carry around the £4,000 wooden monstrosity after the Mirror revealed it has been left abandoned in No10 as officials have failed to find it a new home

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss's £4,000 'Jenga' lectern left abandoned in No10 as nobody wants it

Officials had hoped the costly wooden monstrosity would be used by another Whitehall department or an embassy abroad, but the lectern is still languishing in Downing Street

Daily Mirror

The ghosts of rotten Tories haunt my routine

As the Conservative casualties pile up, thank heavens for Lee Anderson, the no-nonsense MP for Ashfield

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The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak faces Tory Budget rebellion over corporation tax REDIRECTED

Leaders of Tory several factions write to PM urging rethink

Daily Mirror

Kwasi Kwarteng STILL supports 'general direction' of his economy-destroying mini budget

Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng is sticking by the "general direction" of his mini budget that crashed the UK economy, but admits that he has regrets

The Independent UK

The Rolls-Royce politician gearing Labour up for power

Why Labour’s ‘RR’, Rachel Reeves, and her classy economic model are winning over big business, by Simon Walters

The Guardian - UK

How legitimate are the claims in Liz Truss’s 4,000-word Telegraph essay?

The Guardian’s deputy political editor and economics correspondent take a look

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Evening Standard

Yes minister, this week it’s your turn to be Business Secretary

Is it a problem that nobody can hold down the Business Minister position for long?

Daily Record

Lords drank £10,500 of champagne and prosecco in three months as UK economy tanked

EXCLUSIVE: Lords and their guests guzzled more than 300 bottles of fizz in Westminster between September and January.

Daily Mirror

Little boy died suddenly before second birthday - and nobody can tell his mum why

There are more unexplained childhood deaths in one to nine year olds than those caused by tragic accidents, fires or drowning. Eimear O'Hagan meets the families calling for answers

Evening Standard

Liz Truss admits plan to scrap 45p top income tax rate was ‘bridge too far’

The former prime minister continued to defend her failed bid to boost growth in her first interview since stepping down

The National (Scotland)

Liz Truss in agonising pause before trying to justify sacking her chancellor

LIZ Truss has attempted to justify sacking her chancellor – and closest political ally – in the dying days of her doomed premiership.

The Independent UK

Truss admits plan to scrap 45p top income tax rate was ‘bridge too far’

The former prime minister continued to defend her failed bid to boost growth in her first interview since stepping down.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss admits she didn’t understand ‘tinderbox’ pension problem prior to mini-Budget disaster

Former PM says she has no desire to return to No 10 and vows to keep pushing for tax cuts

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