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What time is Jeremy Hunt's autumn statement budget and what will he say

The Chancellor is expected to announce tax rises, service cuts, changes to benefits and pensions and changes to energy bills

Wales Online

The Tories’ ‘fiscal black hole’ is a statistical fiction – let’s have a reality check

The government’s own arbitrary target is the source of this ‘shortfall’, says James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

The Guardian - UK

Five charts that will shape the UK’s autumn statement

Plans are afoot to cut government borrowing with the economy on the brink of recession and the highest inflation for decades

The Guardian - UK

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Autumn Budget - live: Hunt calls tax hikes a ‘horrible decision’ amid warnings of ‘grim years ahead’

UK faces collapse in living standards, higher bills, tax hikes and increased unemployment

The Independent UK

Jeremy Hunt's austerity adds fuel to the fire during cost of living crisis

Record View: Hunt will undoubtedly try to blame the war in Ukraine and insist inflation is causing governments around the world to make savings.

Daily Record

Scots campaigners demand Jeremy Hunt ditches plans for billions in spending cuts

The Child Poverty Action Group said it would be "outrageous" to ask vulnerable people to shoulder the UK’s stricken public finances.

Daily Record

Tory Esther McVey threatens to vote against Budget tax rises in challenge to Rishi Sunak

Esther McVey, who served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions between 2015 and 2018, told the Commons that if the government has enough cash for HS2, it should not need to raise taxes

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Inflation: how to improve official predictions – by asking the public

The eagerly awaited autumn financial statement from UK prime minister Rishi Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt includes a key ingredient: a report from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on the predicted overall effects of the government’s policies on the economy. This is something the Liz Truss government studiously avoided…

The Conversation

Autumn statement 2022: this budget may not cause Truss-level chaos but it could still provoke markets

Liz Truss’s short-lived government presided over an even shorter-lived economic experiment in “Trussonomics”. As investors responded to September’s mini-budget by demanding higher interest premiums to purchase UK debt, the government was unable to execute its plans. Truss was reduced to a helpless bystander as her new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, started…

The Conversation

Sunak’s growth fetish is a problem: he’s heading for the same budget trap as Truss

The siren call of climate-burning expansion bewitches British politics. More of the same will emerge in the autumn statement, says Tim Jackson, professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey

The Guardian - UK

Bristol charities and small business owners react as UK inflation hits 41-year high

"Charities are in the most precarious position I can remember.”

Bristol Post

UK inflation hits 41-year high due to surging energy bills

SOARING energy bills sent UK inflation to its highest level for 41 years in October as the cost-of-living crisis continues to hit households,…

The National (Scotland)

Jeremy Hunt urged to intervene on ‘lethal’ runaway inflation and recession

Chancellor says he will make difficult decisions in Thursday’s budget

The Independent UK

Inflation hits staggering 11.1% in October as Rishi Sunak warns it’s the ‘enemy we need to face down’

Energy bills drive inflation to 41-year high

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Evening Standard

Comment: ‘A council tax rise (done right) might not be a terrible thing’

Council tax is one of the few tools the Treasury has to rebalance the housing market when so many homeowners are mortgage free. But will Jeremy Hunt choose to use it?

Daily Mirror

Inflation hits 11.1% in new 41-year high as energy bills rocket - what it means for you

Inflation is used to show how much the prices of everyday goods and services have increased over time - when it increases, it means the cost of living is becoming more expensive

Wales Online

What we can expect from Thursday’s autumn budget

Tax rises, spending cuts and tightening of belts predicted ahead of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's statement

Daily Record

Scots communities left 'on brink of destitution' if Jeremy Hunt slashes public spending

EXCLUSIVE: The deputy leader of Glasgow City Council has warned local authority finances are already "beyond stretched".

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The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak news - live: Hunt says inflation ‘thwarting’ economic growth as it hits 41-year high

‘This insidious tax is eating into pay cheques, household budgets and savings,’ chancellor says

Wales Online

Councils may need to hike council tax by a fifth to plug funding gap

Local authorities, though, must trigger referendum to increase council tax by more than 2.99 per cent

The Independent UK

What can we expect from Thursday’s autumn budget?

The autumn statement will mark an abrupt about-turn on Kwasi Kwarteng’s disastrous mini-budget.

The Independent UK

Lifting of cap on bankers’ bonuses expected in Chancellor’s autumn budget

Earlier, the Prime Minister urged bosses to keep down their pay to not exacerbate inflation.

The Independent UK

John Swinney warns of ‘severe’ impact on Scotland of UK spending cuts

The Scottish Deputy First Minister was speaking ahead of Thursday’s autumn statement.

Chronicle Live

New £1,100 cost of living package tipped to be announced this week by Jeremy Hunt

This year's £650 payment for most benefits claimants, £150 for disabled and £300 for millions of pensioners may be repeated next year in the Autumn Statement

The Independent UK

Conflict of interest warning as George Osborne ‘advises’ on Budget while working for investment bank

Labour urges Jeremy Hunt to reveal if ‘market-sensitive’ information has been leaked

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