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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?

Evening Standard

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

Daily Mirror

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

Wales Online

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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".

Daily Record

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

The Independent UK

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

Wales Online

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

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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.

The Independent UK

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

Chronicle Live

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

The Independent UK

Up to £1,100 more DWP Cost of Living payments could be announced this week

New measures are expected to be announced by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in Thursday's Autumn Statement

Nottingham Post

Cost of living map shows how Glaswegians are struggling with rising food, energy and housing bills

A new interactive map has shown the reality of how the rising household bills are affecting Glasgow's residents ahead of Jeremy Hunt's Autumn fiscal statement.

Glasgow Live

The Guardian view on the NHS: set up to fail by being underresourced to meet demand

Editorial: It is a symptom of the social care crisis that hospitals find it so hard to discharge people who are well enough to leave

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Having filled us with fear, chancellor hints that horrors won’t be as huge as he thought

The cuts will still be terrible, but not as terrible as they could have been. Rejoice! Celebrate St Jeremy, the patron saint of expectation management

Evening Standard

What is the national minimum wage? Upcoming increase by 6.7% in April 2025 explained

Rachel Reeves’s Autumn Budget also announced a national living wage increase following an earlier rise in the London living wage

Evening Standard

The Leader podcast: What to expect from the Autumn Statement

With less than two days to go until the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement is announced, speculation around what it will include is growing.

The National (Scotland)

Chancellor told austerity is 'Tory political choice' as punishing Budget looms

AUSTERITY is a “Tory political choice”, the Chancellor has been warned days before he unveils the UK Budget – which he has already hinted will…

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Daily Mirror

Minister in charge of hospitals said healthcare is 'natural place to start' with cuts

Steve Barclay said just two months ago that he had instructed department heads within the health service to release information on how much their teams cost, telling a right-wing thinktank that the health service is a "natural place to start" looking for savings

Wales Online

Extra cost-of-living payments worth £1,100 rumoured this week

This week's Autumn Statement is set to repeat the support given to help cope with soaring bills

Birmingham Post

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warned that cutting R&D funding would be a disaster for the UK economy

Vice Chancellor of Swansea University Paul Boyle said such as a move would be 'prove a tragically misguided false economy'

The Independent UK

Civil servants using energy support as ‘lever’ to get Assembly back, says DUP MP

Sammy Wilson asked the Chancellor to investigate whether civil servants were ‘interfering’ in the political process in Northern Ireland.

Nottingham Post

Millions of households in Council Tax Band D could be hit by rises of nearly £100 in April 2023

If the plans are unveiled in the Autumn statement, the move would break the promise made by the Conservative Party in 2019 which pledged to keep the current rate

The Independent UK

Council tax will go up in autumn statement, Jeremy Hunt tells MPs OLD

Chancellor rejects Labour plea to hold down bills – as Tory manifesto promised – pointing to ’very difficult announcements’

The Independent UK

Hunt says ‘difficulty’ of autumn statement will not drive him to drink in Commons

The Chancellor is traditionally entitled to consume alcohol while unveiling financial measures.

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