After sacking her chancellor and abandoning a flagship policy, the prime minister is fighting for her political future
The new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is on Sky News this morning discussing his plans for the position.
He says the Liz Truss administration has made “mistakes” and warned there are “difficult decisions ahead”.
I want to do the right thing for British people.
It’s a big honour to do the job that I’ve been asked to do by the prime minister but I want to be honest with people: we have some very difficult decisions ahead.
There were mistakes. It was a mistake when we’re going to be asking for difficult decisions across the board on tax and spending to cut the rate of tax paid by the very wealthiest.
It was a mistake to fly blind and to do these forecasts without giving people the confidence of the Office of Budget Responsibility saying that the sums add up.
After sacking her chancellor and abandoning a flagship policy, the prime minister is fighting for her political futureThe new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is on Sky News this morning discussing his plans for the position.He says the Liz Truss administration has made “mistakes” and warned there are “difficult decisions ahead”.I want to do the right thing for British people.It’s a big honour to do the job that I’ve been asked to do by the prime minister but I want to be honest with people: we have some very difficult decisions ahead.There were mistakes. It was a mistake when we’re going to be asking for difficult decisions across the board on tax and spending to cut the rate of tax paid by the very wealthiest.It was a mistake to fly blind and to do these forecasts without giving people the confidence of the Office of Budget Responsibility saying that the sums add up. Continue reading…