The Latest Breaking News from Jeremy Hunt

Opposition sets deadline for government to reveal how much ‘unfair’ tax status is costing Exchequer

The party said it wants the Government to publish details by the end of February of whether it has considered getting rid of the tax status.

The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is an optimist, happy to believe that “when it comes to the innovation industries that will shape and define this century, the UK is powerfully positioned to play a leading role”. His speech at Bloomberg on Friday was full of enthusiastic references to digital technology, life…

The Prime Minister has endured an eventful few months in Number 10

At New Smithfield Market the Chancellor's claims that Brexit would 'energise' Britain's economy were given short shrift

PM needs to unfreeze from headlights of dire UK economic position and partner business in boosting investment

The plants are meant to be a backstop, but their profits and exemption from windfall tax are controversial in an energy crisis

New TUC boss Paul Nowak told the Sunday Mirror in an exclusive interview: “The PM must get me and union leaders into the room to sort this out. We’ll go to No10 tomorrow. The ball is in his court.”

Columnist Rachael Bletchly says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's sudden reinvention as a full-on glass-half-full optimist bent on getting the economy bouncing like Tigger is a load of old Poohsticks

Mark Steel says Tories show incompetence across all departments - even a Tory Lord this week wrote an article suggesting students should have to take a ‘tolerance test’ before they graduate

Like Roy Jenkins and Kenneth Clarke before him, he can do little but tackle a crisis bequeathed to him by Conservative folly