Chancellor Hunt earmarks £320m for funds backing UK innovation
Of the announced investment, £250m will go to two unnamed bidders under the Long-term Investment for Technology and Science (LIFTS)...
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Do more to protect access to cash in autumn statement, Jeremy Hunt warned
It is also supported by six members of the SNP, including members of its Westminster frontbench team.Business backing comes from...
Jeremy Hunt to lean on savers to plug gap in public finances
Jeremy Hunt will rely more on savers this year to plug a gaping hole in the public finances as he...
‘Great British Isa’ investors could get extra £5,000 tax allowance
Savers would be handed an extra £5,000 Isa allowance if they put money into a “Great British Isa” under plans to boost...
The tax allowance that could supercharge Britain’s economy – if it’s made permanent
Whacking up corporation tax for larger companies from 19pc to 25pc doesn’t obviously help in this regard. Even at 25pc,...
Benefits claimants subject to bank account checks in fraud clampdown
Benefits claimants will have their bank accounts checked every month to make sure they are not lying about their savings...
Era of easy-money is over – and our governments are ill-prepared
As the world emerges from its zero interest-rate-induced coma, few people have yet processed quite how weird monetary policy became,...
Jeremy Hunt is wrong – tax cuts are more than possible
Total government spending was only 39.5pc of GDP that year. It was perhaps understandable that it spiked up to 53pc in the Covid-affected year. But what is much less excusable is that spending did not return anywhere near its pre-Covid level after the pandemic ended, is scheduled to be over 46pc of GDP this year, and even at the outer horizon of government spending forecasts (if one believes them) is scheduled to be well over 43pc still, in 2027-28.Hunt and Sunak pitch themselves as the grown-up, responsible folk, focused on fiscal...
Boost for Rishi Sunak as Bank of England hits ‘pause’ on interest rate hikes – POLITICO
LONDON — Don’t speak too soon, but Rishi Sunak might just have a good story to tell on the British...
Relief for UK’s Jeremy Hunt as robust economy again keeps lid on borrowing – POLITICO
LONDON — The United Kingdom is borrowing a lot less than it expected to when Chancellor Jeremy Hunt put together...
