Chancellor says he has had ‘absolutely no discussions’ with Rishi Sunak about date of the general election
Jeremy Hunt does not seem to have any qualms about the Conservative party misleadingly saying taxes are going down, when the tax burden is going up. (See 9.31am.) But there is something about which he feels “incredibly guilty”. He told LBC this morning that, despite starting his autumn statement speech with a reference to it being his wife’s birthday, he did not get round to buying her a present – or even a card. He said:
I’m afraid I have not bought anything for my wife. I didn’t even get her a birthday card. I feel incredibly guilty.
What I did was publicly acknowledge her birthday to millions of people, which is something I haven’t done before. So, hopefully I will be able to make up for that at the weekend.
Estimated net migration to the UK stood at a provisional 672,000 in the year to June 2023, up from 607,000 in the previous 12 months but below a revised record figure of 745,000 in the year to December 2022, the Office for National Statistics said.
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