Hunt and Henriques

April 30, 2024

Jeremy Hunt targets further 2p cut in national insurance

...The IMF urged Hunt in January to prioritise spending on health, education and tackling climate change rather than tax cuts....

April 19, 2024

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James Dyson

Jeremy Hunt tells James Dyson to ‘stand for election’ after fiery meeting

...Jeremy Hunt met the British inventor Sir James Dyson at Number 11 Downing Street last Wednesday for what insiders said was a short encounter....

March 20, 2024

News updates from March 20: Fed signals 75 bps of 2024 cuts; Reddit prices shares at top end of IPO range

Hunt orders halt to UK tax helpline closure

...Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has ordered the immediate reversal of plans to scale back drastically the UK tax authority’s public helplines, which were announced just yesterday....

March 20, 2024

Budget 2024: As it happened

Economists give Hunt mixed reviews

...Today was no different, only on this occasion Mr Hunt decided to tax the smoke and to mirror the Labour party’s tax pledges on non-doms and North Sea oil....

March 6, 2024

Budget 2024: As it happened

Hunt announced changes to child benefit

...Jeremy Hunt said the Treasury will look to introduce a household based system by April 2026. The policy has drawn an angry backlash from some parents on middle incomes over the last decade....

March 6, 2024

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Budget 2024: As it happened

Hunt announces £1mn war memorial to Muslims

...Jeremy Hunt opened the Budget with an announcement of £1mn to go towards a memorial to Muslims who died in the first and second world wars “in the service of freedom and democracy”....

March 6, 2024

Budget 2024: As it happened

Hunt promises permanent cuts in taxation

...Lower taxes mean higher growth . . . and more funding for our public services.”...

March 6, 2024

Budget 2024: As it happened

Hunt promises a return to growth

...“Since 2010, we have grown faster than Germany, France or Italy,” said Jeremy Hunt. “And according to the IMF we will continue to grow faster than all three in the five years ahead....

March 6, 2024

Budget 2024: As it happened

Hunt promises public sector productivity drive

...This, he said, would involve a doubling of investment in NHS digitisation and transformation this year....

March 6, 2024

Budget 2024: As it happened

NatWest stake sale ‘at earliest opportunity’, promises Hunt

...The sale would take place “at the earliest opportunity, subject to market conditions and value for money”, Hunt added....

March 6, 2024

Stephen Bush

Comment: Hunt snaffles Labour’s revenue raisers

...That’s what Jeremy Hunt is doing underneath the spin....

March 6, 2024

Budget 2024: As it happened

Comment: Hunt seeks to establish political dividing lines

...Can Hunt and Rishi Sunak force Labour on to this territory?...

March 6, 2024

Budget 2024: As it happened

Comment: Hunt takes inflation credit where none due

...Jeremy Hunt took credit for the OBR’s forecast that inflation would fall below the Bank of England’s 2 per cent target within two months....

March 6, 2024

Budget 2024: As it happened

In summary: Jeremy Hunt delivers national insurance cut and more

...A 2p cut to national insurance was the main talking point coming into Jeremy Hunt’s Budget speech. He duly delivered that, saying it was a move that would “grow our economy by rewarding work”....

March 6, 2024

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Thames Water

Hunt says Thames Water must ‘sort out’ its own issues

...Hunt was asked about Thames Water by reporters during a visit to Washington for the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank....

April 17, 2024

Budget 2024: As it happened

Comment: Hunt seeks to square growth commitments with immigration pledges

...A central feature has been Jeremy Hunt’s emphasis on moving away from a workforce dependent on high immigration to fill the jobs....

March 6, 2024

UK politics

Hunt raises possibility of more tax cuts before general election

...Hunt was speaking at the start of a trip to the US in which he will promote the idea that the UK is shrugging off a period of high inflation and stagnant growth, and that the public will start to feel benefits...

April 16, 2024

Budget 2024: As it happened

Hunt confirms much-trailed 2p national insurance cut

...The moves made the system “simpler and fairer” and rewarded those in work, Hunt said....

March 6, 2024

News updates from March 20: Fed signals 75 bps of 2024 cuts; Reddit prices shares at top end of IPO range

Hunt seizes on falling UK inflation and says 2% target is in sight

...Wednesday’s sharp fall in inflation was seized upon by UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt. “The plan is working....

March 20, 2024

Budget 2024: As it happened

Comment: OBR forecast timing a stroke of fortune for Hunt

...This was when interest rates were low and these have given Hunt almost £15bn a year to play with....

March 6, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

Jeremy Hunt’s Budget bind

...For the sake of the country — not to mention Hunt and his party — the chancellor should deliver a Budget that he himself would be happy to build upon in a year’s time....

March 4, 2024

News updates from March 7: Sweden joins Nato; Powell says Fed ‘not far’ from having confidence to cut rates

Jeremy Hunt hints at combination of income tax and national insurance

...National insurance is a “tax on work”, Hunt said. “We want to end that unfairness over time . . . I think it is wrong that we tax work twice.”...

March 7, 2024

Budget 2024: As it happened

Comment: Jeremy Hunt’s repeat of 2p ploy promises political gains and losses

...the government’s spending on computing power to develop artificial intelligence and further fleshing out its £2.5bn national quantum strategy....

March 6, 2024

Budget 2024: As it happened

‘We’re bringing down taxes’ — Hunt’s pre-takeaway from today’s Budget

...Jeremy Hunt has promised to “stick to the plan” in today’s Budget. In a video posted on X, Hunt said he wanted the main takeaway for the British people to be that “we’re bringing down taxes”....

March 6, 2024

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