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Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt is contending with rocketing inflation, mass industrial action and a cost-of-living crisis

The Independent UK · Mar 15, 2023

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 · Mar 15, 2023

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 · Mar 14, 2023

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 10, 2023

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 · Mar 6, 2023

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 · Mar 3, 2023

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 · Mar 2, 2023

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 · Mar 1, 2023

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 · Feb 21, 2023

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 · Feb 19, 2023