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...But he said it might allow chancellor Jeremy Hunt to make another fiscal statement in the autumn and announce further tax cuts, a scenario labelled by shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves as a “scorched earth...
...Doing so would put shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves in a difficult position, he said on a podcast he jointly hosts with former Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls....
...After the governing Conservatives’ disastrous showing in local elections last week, Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt want to get back on the front foot by focusing on improving the country’s growth prospects...
...Labour officials shudder at talk of “Heevesian” economics — a synthesis of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s policies with those of Reeves — but the similarities are greater than either side would care to accept....
...In Wednesday’s Budget, chancellor Jeremy Hunt said that from April 2025, an individual will be able to claim such privileges for four years, down from the current 15....
...Rachel Reeves delivered the Mais Lecture last night....
...In recent months, Reeves has shadowed the approach taken by the chancellor Jeremy Hunt, in a little-noticed sign that Labour does not intend to lurch in a different direction if it wins the election expected...
...Reeves said she would work “methodically” to identify funding for Labour’s spending plans after chancellor Jeremy Hunt adopted the party’s revenue-raising measures of scrapping the non-dom tax regime and...
...Former Labour leader Ed Miliband once branded parts of the City “predators”, while his successor Jeremy Corbyn had a dismal relationship with the Square Mile....
...The term ‘Heevesian’ is a compound of the names of the Chancellor (Jeremy Hunt) and the Shadow Chancellor (Rachel Reeves)....
...Institute for Fiscal Studies director Paul Johnson said her rules would be “identical in effect” to those being followed by the current chancellor, Jeremy Hunt....
...Jeremy Hunt had three political goals in this Budget, all of them short term....
...Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is also due to address leaders in Davos, including participating in a panel discussing technology....
...Reeves has said she will show how the party’s sums add up....
...“Jeremy Hunt and Rachel Reeves are very similar,” Clarke said. “The big difference is that I handed over to Gordon the healthiest economy we had had since the war.”...
...The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has promised unspecified savings to fund cuts to National Insurance....
...Jeremy Hunt has warned Conservative colleagues not to expect big tax cuts in his March 6 Budget, after a new set of internal fiscal forecasts showed he has dwindling room for manoeuvre....
...“Jeremy is more cautious,” said one person briefed on the discussions....
...It is Reeves who has to corral a party that wants to spend more, and Reeves who is far more likely to end up having to make the optimistic numbers at the end of Hunt’s plans add up....
...Reeves has claimed chancellor Jeremy Hunt intends to adopt a “scorched earth” approach to the public finances, limiting the fiscal room for manoeuvre for a future Labour government....
...As I noted in a column on Jeremy Hunt’s recent Budget, if economic growth had continued on its 1955-2008 trend, GDP per head would now be 39 per cent higher....
...Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, wrongfooted Labour last month with a surprise plan to axe the colonial-era, non-dom tax regime, raising up to £3.67bn by 2027-28 as part of efforts to fund a second round of...
...Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has cut the national insurance rate twice, first in the Autumn Statement and then in last month’s Budget, reducing it from 12p to 8p, equivalent to a cut of £900 a year on average...
...And almost everything Jeremy Hunt says is about trying to make sure she fails....
...Hunt’s (and by extension, Rachel Reeves’) sums add up....
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