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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Maroosha Muzaffar and Thomas Kingsley

Rishi Sunak news – live: PM backs Raab amid new bullying allegations

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Jeremy Hunt has insisted he does not believe Brexit will make the UK poorer in a fractious interview on the topic.

The chancellor was asked about his own watchdog’s analysis that leaving the EU would swipe £100bn from output and £40bn from revenues by the decade’s end.

But he told Sky News he did not accept the Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast of a 4 per cent GDP slump.

Mr Hunt added: “I don’t accept that the long-term impact of that decision [leaving the EU] will be to make us poorer.”

In other news, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss have joined Tory backbenchers in a rebellion against a defacto ban on new onshore windfarms in a blow to Rishi Sunak’s authority.

The former prime minister’s have put their name to an amendment to allow windfarm development on land - the pair’s first major parliamentary interventions since departing Downing Street.

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