Jeremy Hunt: everyone will be paying more tax after autumn statement

Everyone will be paying “a bit more tax” after the autumn budget, the chancellor has said, as he asked everyone to make sacrifices.

by | 13 Nov, 2022

Warning of severe cuts to public services, Jeremy Hunt said there would be “very difficult decisions” made but claimed his plan would show the way through “difficult times”.

Hunt faces his biggest test as chancellor on Thursday, following the chaos of Liz Truss’s mini-budget. The Resolution Foundation estimated on Saturday that “Trussonomics” had cost Britain about £30bn.

He told Sky News: “Well, we are all going to be paying a bit more tax, I’m afraid … but it is not just going to be bad news.

Read more at The Guardian

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