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The Latest Breaking News from Jeremy Hunt

New free childcare budget 2023 changes explained - who will get them and when

Chanceller Jeremy Hunt announced the improvements - but they won't all come in immediately

Nottingham Post

What to do if your Universal Credit has been sanctioned as DWP to impose ‘tougher’ rules

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced in the Spring Budget that the sanctions would be applied “more rigorously” to those who fail to meet strict work-search requirements or choose not to take up a reasonable job offer

Daily Mirror

What today’s rise in interest rates means for your money and when they might go down

It is the 11th consecutive increase in the base rate, and the highest since 2008

Wales Online

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A third of care homes in England have considered closing due to rising energy bills

Care England says there is ‘no justification for charging such financially crippling rates’

The Guardian - UK

New childcare funding could add £100,000-plus to London homebuyers’ budgets

From being able to afford a first property to redrawing a search map entirely, home loan experts explain how the new childcare support could help young families in the capital

Evening Standard

Food prices at highest level in 45 years as UK inflation unexpectedly rises again

Shortages of vegetables such as tomatoes and peppers in recent weeks were largely behind the rocketing food inflation.

Daily Record

Inflation leaps again thanks to rising food and drink prices

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said: “We recognise just how tough things are for families across the country

Wales Online

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Good riddance to the work capability assessment, the cruellest social policy of modern times

Thousands of people have died after wrongly being found ‘fit for work’, but benefits campaigners aren’t celebrating yet, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The Guardian - UK

Hunt’s jobs drive will push mothers on benefits to work 30-hour week

Exclusive: Single mothers of three-year-olds will be disproportionately hit by ‘unconscionable’ policy, say charities and academics

The Guardian - UK

April dates for DWP payments, benefits, pensions and cost of living top ups

Three-month extension of energy price guarantee welcomed but key state support schemes expiring

The Independent UK

Benefit sanctions regime should be suspended during cost of living crisis, ministers told

The demand from the IPPR think-tank comes a week after the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warned in the Budget that the Tory Government would apply benefit sanctions more 'rigorously'

Daily Mirror

Jeremy Hunt plays down economic crisis risk as Budget watchdog warns of 'stress' in system

The Chancellor said the UK is in a better position than it was during the 2008 financial crash with a 'resilience that there wasn't back then'. But the chief of the OBR warned the system was 'under stress'

Daily Mirror

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s pensions shake-up receives support from MPs

MPs voted 330 to 233, majority 97, in favour of the Budget resolution on the lifetime allowance charge and annual allowance.

The Independent UK

Pension pot offer won’t fix NHS workforce crisis

Letters: The focus must be on retaining existing staff and reducing private sector work, writes consultant haematologist John Hanley. Plus letters from Robin Davies, Jo Pike and Orest Mulka

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The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak says he’s ‘proud’ of economic record after being told of carer who can’t afford light bulb

The prime minister was challenged over the impact of the cost of living crisis

The Guardian - UK

Hunt’s pensions tax break expected to help ‘nearly as many bankers as doctors’

Head of Resolution Foundation says other measures to retain NHS staff could have offered better value for money

The Independent UK

Watch as chancellor gives evidence to Economic Affairs Committee after budget

Watch from the House of Lords as peers hear evidence from Jeremy Hunt about the economy.

The National (Scotland)

Tory MPs' interview with Tory Chancellor on GB News being probed, Ofcom says

BROADCAST regulator Ofcom has confirmed it is looking into complaints of potential rule-breaking by GB News after two of its Tory MP hosts…

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The Independent UK

Hunt running a ‘high-tax, high-spend, low-growth, quasi-socialist economy’ – MP

Philip Davies, MP for Shipley, urged Jeremy Hunt to lower the ‘burden of taxation’ and introduce ‘some tax cuts’ days after the Chancellor’s Budget.

Evening Standard

Is the UK’s childcare system too broken for Jeremy Hunt’s £4 billion plan to fix?

Last week the Chancellor announced the largest expansion of free childcare England has ever seen but neither parents nor providers are happy about it. Kate Wills reports

The Guardian - UK

‘I grew up at the margins’: Bridget Phillipson on teachers’ strikes, Ofsted, Brexit and Corbyn

The shadow education secretary is determined to put childcare reform at the heart of Labour’s policy – and stop Jeremy Hunt stealing her thunder

The Guardian - UK

UK government borrowing hits record in February amid energy bills support

Deficit increases despite higher tax receipts and lower interest payments

The Guardian - UK

Sunak cares nothing for the 99% – and after his pensions hike for the rich, they know it

The PM and his chancellor thought they could hide the greed in plain sight, but focus groups show voters are aware – and angry, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Manchester Evening News

Nursery boss says 30 hours free childcare scheme will never work unless 'workforce crisis' is addressed

The boss of one of the UK's biggest nursery chains says Early Years sector 'is facing the worst workforce challenges it has seen'

Glasgow Live

Glasgow drivers set to see three changes after Budget announcement - including car tax rise

There are a few changes happening very soon with Glasgow drivers set to be among those affected after the Budget was announced. But what is happening? Here us what you need to know.

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