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The Latest Breaking News from Jeremy Hunt

Sunak makes pitch to Tory right as Truss draws conference crowd

The Prime Minister seemed set to scale back HS2 amid announcements on cutting the size of the Civil Service and imposing tougher benefits conditions.

The Independent UK

Scrapping of HS2 northern leg slammed by locals: ‘Biggest two fingers to the North in decades’

Business leaders and residents in the North slam government plans to delay HS2 as ‘complete betrayal’

The Independent UK

Hunt sets out plan to shrink civil service as Tory pressure to cut taxes mounts

Jeremy Hunt said improving public sector productivity could allow him to cut taxes.

The Independent UK

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Rishi Sunak’s Commons majority in peril as 60 Tories join Liz Truss group

Growth Group now same size as government’s majority, as it urges PM to cut taxes and resume fracking

The Guardian - UK

How The Independent revealed Sunak’s plan to cut HS2 - and how the government reacted

The Independent’s revelations about HS2 rocked Westminster

The Independent UK

HS2 northern leg scrapped – weeks after The Independent revealed Rishi Sunak’s plan to axe it

PM set to make announcement after we first revealed ‘Project Redwood’ talks to shelve high-speed rail link

The Independent UK

Jeremy Hunt admits he flew to Manchester Tory conference from London

The Chancellor said he took a BA flight because his train was cancelled amid industrial action.

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I’ll chart a path to lower taxes – I just can’t say when, Jeremy Hunt tells Tories

The Chancellor has ruled out tax cuts this year but is keeping alive hopes of a pre-election giveaway

Evening Standard

Chancellor Jeremy Hunts says tearing children away from phone screens is ‘nightmare’

The Chancellor has described the “nightmare” he has tearing his children away from their phone and iPad screens as plans for a ban on mobiles in the classroom were expected to be announced.

Evening Standard

Jeremy Hunt signals axe for HS2’s northern leg as he slams ‘totally unacceptable’ costs

Chancellor questions why it costs ‘10 times more’ to build high-speed rail in UK than France

The Independent UK

Jeremy Hunt distances himself from Suella Braverman after asylum speech backlash

Suella Braverman called for an overhaul of the UN Refugee Convention, arguing it had become far too generous to migrants

The Independent UK

NHS pays doctor £7,900 to cover striking colleagues

Multiple hospitals say they have shelled out more than £3,000 for a strike shift

The Independent UK

Hunt distances himself from Braverman’s migration speech

The Chancellor said he ‘wouldn’t use her words’ as he defended allowing skilled foreign workers into the UK.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak accused of presiding over ‘chaos’ as Tory conference braces for news of HS2 Manchester leg cancellation – as it happened

Andy Burnham, Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, says news would be ‘profoundly depressing’

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UK Treasury chief says he'll hike the minimum wage but rules out tax cuts while inflation stays high

Britain’s Treasury chief is announcing a hike in the national minimum wage

The Independent UK

Hunt rules out big tax cuts despite Tory calls for pre-election giveaway

The Chancellor said cuts this year would ‘compromise’ the battle against inflation.

The Independent UK

Hunt to raise living wage to £11 an hour and crackdown on benefit ‘shirkers’

National living wage to increase to £11 an hour, Hunt to promise at Tory conference

The Independent UK

Hunt to set out tougher welfare rules and boost living wage at Tory conference

Other measures at the Manchester gathering will include a plan to ban mobile phones in England’s schools.

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Time to withhold benefits from those who won’t look for work, says Jeremy Hunt

Cash-strapped chancellor to pledge changes to welfare system in speech at Tory conference on Monday

The Independent UK

Hunt to confirm ‘pay boost for two million’ as living wage rises to £11 an hour

The Chancellor will announce the move to the Conservative conference on Monday.

The Guardian - UK

Sunday at Tory conference: highlights of the day

A row over tax cuts, a car crash start for Onward and the home secretary accused of attention-seeking

The Independent UK

Sunak faces open revolt over refusal to back tax cuts

(And he STILL won’t come clean about plan to cancel northern leg of HS2)

The Guardian - UK

Chancellor chooses plane over train to get from London to Manchester

Exclusive: Jeremy Hunt selects most carbon-intensive transport to make meeting ahead of Tory conference

The Independent UK

Pressure on Sunak as his own former levelling up minister calls for HS2 to be finished in full

Dehenna Davison and Jake Berry join backlash against PM’s move to axe northern leg

The Independent UK

September dates for benefits, pensions and cost of living payments

Inflation falling but not swiftly enough to prevent further interest rate rise making life tougher for mortgage holders

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