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In today’s newsletter: His autumn statement was all about repairing the damage of the Truss government. What will Jeremy Hunt’s first budget entail?

‘[The BBC] emailed their apologies but I wonder why they keep mistaking me for other colleagues?’ the MP said

Tomorrow, as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivers his first Budget speech, he will be faced across the Despatch Box by Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves. Yet his true opponents will be the ghosts of Conservatism’s recent past: Boris Johnson and the ethical crash that ended his shambolic premiership;…

The chancellor is contending with rocketing inflation, mass industrial action and a cost-of-living crisis

There could be some big changes on the way on Wednesday

Startling research by Labour found some mortgage holders are being forced to find an extra £642 every month in the wake of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's botched economic experiment

Editorial: Jeremy Hunt has little to offer a country battered by austerity and venal politics

The chancellor is unlikely to make giveaways next week, but he could offer more help with energy bills

‘I am prepared to take responsibility for things I knew about and can foresee but not things I don’t know about,’ ex-PM says

Exclusive: West London MP says she has completed ‘anti-racism and bias training’ after having whip restored

The economy is picking up more quickly than feared and may even give recession the swerve. But that is despite, not because, of the mini-Budget mayhem.