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The Latest Breaking News from Jeremy Hunt

Hunt reportedly mulling stamp duty and NI cuts in effort to woo voters

Possible move in autumn statement come as experts sound alarm about dire state of UK public services

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt’s tax cut plans to face IMF scrutiny next month

Annual health check to examine whether tax increases or spending cuts will be needed after election

The Guardian - UK

IMF’s Georgieva says border migration is helping US outperform Europe; UK car insurance prices finally falling – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

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Beware risks of voter giveaways to public finances, countries facing elections told

IMF says reduction in national insurance may have made cutting UK national debt more difficult

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt gets £12billion more 'headroom' so could slash another 2p off National Insurance, says IFS

But the leading economists warn against the move as public services desperately need more funding

Evening Standard

‘Petrified’ non-doms poised to flee UK over Labour’s tax plans, say experts

Prospect of party closing Tory ‘loopholes’ if elected prompts some wealthy individuals to explore a move overseas

The Guardian - UK

Former Royal Mail chief exec says he ‘was not aware’ group’s lawyers were prosecuting post office operators – as it happened

Adam Crozier tells Horizon IT scandal inquiry that he was unaware lawyers within the group conducted prosecutions

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Labour creates tax panel to help it clamp down on avoiders

Group will advise on how to modernise HMRC after shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves reveals plan for £5bn crackdown

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The Standard View: Labour's non-dom tax plans are a lesson in risk and reward

A cautious Labour Party has been loath to highlight any taxes it may raise to fund public services with just one or two exceptions, including on wealthy “non-doms” — those not domiciled in the UK for tax purposes.

Evening Standard

No change to UK’s arms exports to Israel but position kept under review, says David Cameron – as it happened

UK foreign secretary also defended his meeting with Donald Trump during a press conference in Washington

The Guardian - UK

Labour plans £5bn crackdown on tax avoiders to close non-dom spending gap

Funding needed after Tories adopted Labour policy to pay for tax cuts will be used for school breakfast clubs and NHS

The Guardian - UK

The meek may inherit the earth but they won’t inherit the City

City Voices: US companies are masters at blowing their own trumpet

Evening Standard

‘Our margins are threadbare’: UK’s craft beer scene says it’s on the brink

Small brewers are being squeezed, with a flurry of insolvencies hitting the sector despite strong sales

The Guardian - UK

People are poorer than at the last election and all Hunt can do is hope

Economic upticks are welcome but they won’t help the chancellor’s chances of retaining his seat

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From HS2 to the NHS, Britain doesn’t cut costs. Disastrously, it just cuts corners

Short-termist and kneejerk decisions to ‘balance the books’ always end up with the exchequer paying out more for less

The Guardian - UK

British Savings Bonds: after the fanfare, interest rates hit a flat note

NS&I’s new product offers up to 4.15% – but some experts dismiss it as just ‘a fancy bit of marketing’

The Guardian - UK

Tory MP Luke Evans reveals he was targeted in Westminster sexting scandal

Evans says he was first to alert authorities after receiving messages in what is suspected to be part of wider attempt to target MPs

Evening Standard

Scotland Yard working with other police forces over MP explicit photos scandal

The Met’s involvement came after Conservative MP William Wragg said he was ‘manipulated’ into sharing personal phone numbers of colleagues

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Evening Standard

Tories to lose all but five London seats in general election disaster for Rishi Sunak, new poll suggests

The YouGov survey showed the Conservatives haemorrhaging more than a dozen seats to Labour and the Liberal Democrats

The Guardian - UK

£100,000 may not go far in Jeremy Hunt’s world – but child poverty is getting worse there too

Letters: Les Bright and Pete Stockwell on the chancellor’s suggestion that a salary of £100,000 ‘doesn’t go as far as you might think’, and Trevor Lyttleton on the state pension triple lock

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The UK’s new minimum wage ‘badly needed’ but many calling for more

UK’s new legal minimum wage gets a 9.8 percent rise, the highest boost since 2001. But with inflation, it’s not enough.

The Guardian - UK

Tory plans to abolish non-dom status riddled with loopholes, Labour says

Analysis suggests wealthiest would save millions and Sunak’s own family could benefit to tune of £250m

The Guardian - UK

‘This hits the wrong people’: holiday let owners say Hunt’s scrapping of tax relief won’t affect rich

Wealthy second home owners who can afford to allow them to sit empty will carry on, say those with small holiday lettings

The Guardian - UK

How council taxes and the budget are pushing owners to de-list second homes in England and Wales

Wales led the way in tackling the problem of empty properties and priced-out locals – and now Jeremy Hunt has weighed in

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt and Gen Z are clearly of a mind on Shein. They’d rather skirt the issues

The fast fashion firm’s dubious ethical record doesn’t get in the way of a ‘haul’ or an IPO

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