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Council tax rise not on cards in Wirral after government allows 5% increase

“Why should our council tax payers, particularly the poorest, have to pay for this government’s incompetence?"

Liverpool Echo

'Hidden horrors' in the small print of Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Statement

From the highest tax burden since the Second World War, to a £250 bombshell rise for council tax payers

Nottingham Post

Tory rebel Esther McVey fumes Jeremy Hunt could have 'put final nail in election hopes'

The former Work and Pensions Secretary said she could not support the tax rises announced in yesterday's Autumn Statement and said that money should be saved on projects such as HS2

Daily Mirror

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Nicola Sturgeon says next year's Scottish Budget will be 'difficult balancing act'

NICOLA Sturgeon has said Scotland’s Budget for next year will be a “difficult balancing act”.

The National (Scotland)

UK economy damaged by ‘own goals’ like Brexit and Liz Truss’s Budget, economists say

Institute for Fiscal Studies says UK faces ‘long, unpleasant journey’ over next few years

The Independent UK

What does the Autumn Budget mean for young people?

The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced tax hikes and cuts to public spending in his Autumn Budget, but what impact will that have on young people?

Liverpool Echo

The Standard View: Pain for Londoners as hundreds of thousands to be dragged into higher tax thresholds

Jeremy Hunt has taken a gamble. No doubt, pain is guaranteed for millions of people over the coming years. The tax burden is rising ever-higher as middle earners are dragged into higher rates of tax, while living standards are set to suffer the greatest fall on record. But despite the…

Evening Standard

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Sturgeon: Next year’s Scottish budget will be a ‘difficult balancing act’

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced extra funding for Scotland via the Barnett formula on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Relief meets fear as UK budget calms economy but brings pain

Britain’s Conservative government is defending its decision to hike taxes for millions of working people in the “squeezed middle” class as it tries to shore up an economy battered by double-digit inflation

The Independent UK

The full list of benefits going up by 10.1 per cent next year

A wide range of benefit payments will increase in line with inflation next year

Manchester Evening News

Emily Sheffield: A bad hand played well still leaves Jeremy Hunt with a mountain to climb

Make no mistake, the contents of this financial statement are hitting the ‘just about managing’ middle classes devastatingly hard. No jam in sight anywhere for the JAMs… By freezing the basic and higher rate income tax thresholds until 2028, the Treasury hopes to raise £6 billion, as this stealth tax…

Evening Standard

Martin Lewis: Spring will bring ‘perfect storm’, warns money-saving expert as he delivers his Autumn Statement verdict

Lewis is urging people to start budgeting and planning for next year

Evening Standard

Who gets the new £900, £300 and £150 cost of living payments

There will be new cost of living payments for households on means-tested benefits, pensioners and people with disabilities next year

Nottingham Post

‘Squeezed middle’ in the South-East will see 900,000 pulled into higher tax band

Hundreds of thousands of “squeezed middle” earners across London and the South-East are set to be dragged into the higher 40 per tax band over the next six years after Jeremy Hunt extended the freeze on thresholds in his Autumn Statement.

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Daily Mirror

Martin Lewis explains everything you need to know about new help for mortgages

Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) is a scheme that usually supports benefit-claiming homeowners struggling to cover mortgage payments - Martin Lewis explains how it works

Evening Standard

Autumn Statement reaction: Higher tax ‘here to stay’ as pain goes on

New warning that burden unlikely to return to pre-Covid level ‘any time in coming decades’

Evening Standard

Jeremy Hunt first Tory behind Labour counterpart as ‘best Chancellor’ for nine years

Jeremy Hunt whose Autumn Statement included £24 billion of tax rises

Daily Record

Billions of pounds of tax rises and cuts are a hammer-blow to the people of this country

Writing for the Record, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar accuses the Tory Government of economic mismanagement

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Liverpool Echo

Martin Lewis shares who will feel 'biggest squeeze' next year

Martin's warning comes after Jeremy Hunt's autumn statement

The Guardian - UK

The British people ‘just got a lot poorer’, says IFS thinktank

UK has scored ‘a series of economic own goals’, Institute for Fiscal Studies says after autumn statement

Daily Mirror

Autumn Statement: Brits 'just got a lot poorer' with Middle England 'set for a shock'

After the Autumn Statement, the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Paul Johnson said he would be 'most surprised' if the tax burden returns to pre-Covid average 'at any time in the coming decades'

Manchester Evening News

DWP to pay up to £1350 to people on Universal Credit, State Pension, disability benefits and more

The Chancellor announced a wave of new support for struggling families this week

The Guardian - UK

‘Foulest medicine’: Tory press lashes out at Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement

Headlines in traditionally friendly Daily Mail, Sun and Telegraph make for tough reading for chancellor

The Guardian - UK

‘This isn’t fair’: public sector workers react to autumn statement

A teacher, a civil servant and an NHS nurse say spending is not enough to tackle costs and avoid strikes

The Conversation

Jeremy Hunt's autumn statement is a poisoned chalice for whoever wins the next election

UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has produced a highly political autumn statement that throws forward major cuts in public spending to after the next general election. The accompanying economic forecast by the government’s Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) confirms that the country is facing a recession, with unemployment rising, inflation still…

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