The Latest Breaking News from Jeremy Hunt

Kevin McCloud is undercover, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall does some flyposting and Mary Portas sends a Jilly Cooper book to the PM. This government-baiting show is impressively angry TV

Hundreds of thousands with serious mobility and mental health issues told to ‘make work pay’ from home, as chancellor admits more work to be done on the economy but claims tax cut plans show Tories ‘reject big government’

The rate is currently £10.42 for workers aged 23 and over, but the new figure will apply to 21 and 22-year-olds for the first time.

The announcement comes ahead of the chancellor’s autumn statement tomorrow

City Voices: The government should be doing everything it can to incentivise business investment

Dave Ramsden tells MPs referendum fallout also contributed to lower speed limit for growth of UK economy

Deputy First Minister Shona Robison blamed ‘prolonged Westminster austerity’ as she urged Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to invest in public services.

'The economy, stupid': rarely have three words been so debased by overuse as the campaign message coined by James Carville, Bill Clinton’s chief strategist in the 1992 US presidential race; a slogan which has been the inspiration of countless headlines in the past three decades.

Jeremy Hunt must balance fiscal responsibility, inflation and the need for investment with demands for a range of tax cuts from Tory MPs.