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Political Editor
  • Biggest tax cut for businesses in 50 years in Autumn Statement

    Jeremy Hunt vows to support entrepreneurs and is expected to cut National Insurance

    By Ben Riley-Smith 21 Nov 2023, 10:30pm
    Jeremy Hunt prepares his Autumn Statement
  • Hunt to raise Living Wage by £1 an hour to benefit three million workers

    Chancellor delivers on pledge to raise pay for the lowest-paid with 10pc increase – the biggest ever

    By Ben Riley-Smith 21 Nov 2023, 7:11pm
    Chancellor Jeremy Hunt
  • Ministers ‘should halt Abu Dhabi takeover of The Telegraph’

    Strong grounds to stop RedBird IMI deal being completed, say rival bidder’s lawyers

    By Christopher Williams 21 Nov 2023, 4:57pm
    A commuter reading the Daily Telegraph Newspaper
  • Sunak pins political hopes on Thatcherite tax-cutting package

    Prime Minister aims to revitalise his fortunes at Autumn Statement by reducing burden on businesses and workers

    By Ben Riley-Smith 20 Nov 2023, 9:44pm
    Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt tried their hands at electrical work during a visit to the Enfield Centre, London, on Monday.
  • Britain’s foreign aid approach must ‘adapt to new realities’, David Cameron to say

    Former prime minister, named new Foreign Secretary last week, will say approach must benefit British people as well as the world

    By Ben Riley-Smith 20 Nov 2023, 6:38pm
    Lord Cameron
  • Abu Dhabi-backed fund poised for Telegraph takeover

    MPs to discuss implications for press freedom

    By Christopher Williams 20 Nov 2023, 5:09pm
    telegraph sale
  • Sunak vows to cut taxes but warns: ‘We can’t do everything at once’

    Income tax and national insurance reductions seen as likely after Prime Minister’s pre-Autumn Statement address

    By Ben Riley-Smith 20 Nov 2023, 4:46pm
    video: Sunak vows to cut taxes but warns: ‘We can’t do everything at once’
  • Labour demands clarity on winter fuel payments after minister’s remarks

    John Glen, the Paymaster General, questioned last month whether benefit should continue to go to all pensioners

    By Ben Riley-Smith 20 Nov 2023, 12:54pm
    Darren Jones, Labour’s shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, has written to Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor, about the comments
  • Winter fuel payments to wealthy pensioners questioned by Treasury minister in leaked recording

    John Glen, who was then chief secretary to the Treasury, said that the money would be better spent tackling child poverty

    By Ben Riley-Smith 19 Nov 2023, 8:37pm
    John Glen
  • Autumn Statement: The taxes Jeremy Hunt could cut

    The Chancellor has committed to lowering taxes as long as there is no danger of the move stimulating inflation

    By Ben Riley-Smith 19 Nov 2023, 8:30pm
    The Chanchellor was on the Sunday politics news programmes ahead of the Autumn Statement
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  • Taxes must be lowered to get economy ‘fizzing’, says Jeremy Hunt

    Chancellor insisted he would do it ‘in a responsible way’ but warned it would not ‘happen overnight’

    By Ben Riley-Smith 19 Nov 2023, 12:24pm
    Jeremy Hunt
  • Jeremy Hunt: The time has come for tax cuts

    In an interview with The Telegraph ahead of his Autumn Statement, the Chancellor says the economy is at a turning point

    By Ben Riley-Smith 17 Nov 2023, 9:00pm
    Jeremy Hunt says: 'We have to show the country there is a path to a lower tax economy'
  • Jeremy Hunt: The next election will be the fight of my life – but I’m up for the battle

    Speaking to The Telegraph ahead of next week's Autumn Statement, the Chancellor quashes talk that he could stand down

    By Ben Riley-Smith 17 Nov 2023, 9:00pm
    Jeremy Hunt will deliver the Autumn Statement on Wednesday
  • Deputy speaker and Tory MP face the heat over lockdown gathering

    Dame Eleanor Laing and Virginia Crosby might have broken Commons rules by attending 2020 event during Covid restrictions

    By Ben Riley-Smith 16 Nov 2023, 8:52pm
    Eleanor Laing, deputy speaker of the House of Commons, is one of those being investigated over the lockdown gathering
  • Sunak will use emergency law to start Rwanda flights

    Move to strike new treaty comes after Prime Minister’s flagship small boats policy was ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court

    By Ben Riley-Smith 15 Nov 2023, 10:06pm
    Rishi Sunak at a Downing Street press conference, where he vowed to strike a new treaty with Rwanda
  • Sunak and Hunt plan to cut inheritance tax at Autumn Statement

    The pair have discussed lowering the rate from 40pc, a move that Treasury officials have deemed would not be inflationary

    By Ben Riley-Smith 15 Nov 2023, 9:00pm
    The Prime Minister and Chancellor have been discussing reducing the inheritance tax, which currently at 40 per cent
  • New Rwanda treaty on deportations in the works if judges rule against Government

    Rewritten deal is one of many contingency measures being considered if the Supreme Court upholds a Court of Appeal ruling against the policy

    By Charles Hymas 14 Nov 2023, 10:28pm
    Rwanda deportation policy
  • Braverman accuses Sunak of ‘betraying the nation’ and backtracking on secret deal

    Scathing resignation letter accuses PM of dodging ‘hard decisions’ on stopping the boats and ignoring ECHR on Rwanda

    By Ben Riley-Smith 14 Nov 2023, 10:05pm
    Suella Braverman leaving her home on Tuesday morning
  • Starmer ready to sack Labour shadow ministers who vote for Gaza ceasefire

    Figures close to Labour leader believe more than 10 of his frontbenchers could end up supporting an amendment

    By Ben Riley-Smith 14 Nov 2023, 7:52pm
    Sir Keir Starmer with Labour MPs
  • Cameron’s return sparks backlash from Tory Right

    Reshuffle prompts MPs to turn on Sunak after Braverman sacked as home secretary

    By Ben Riley-Smith 13 Nov 2023, 10:00pm
    video: Cameron’s return sparks backlash from Tory Right
  • Cameron was offered job before Braverman accused police of bias

    Front-line return was proposed last Tuesday, before the Home Secretary’s provocative article on Met's approach to protests

    By Ben Riley-Smith 13 Nov 2023, 9:32pm
    David Cameron shakes hands with the Prime Minister as he is appointed Foreign Secretary on Nov 13
  • Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman have been in contact over article critical of police but no sacking … yet

    It comes as Jeremy Hunt distances himself from the Home Secretary’s rhetoric with fresh Tory calls for her to go

    By Ben Riley-Smith 10 Nov 2023, 7:46pm
    Suella Braverman, pictured on Friday, remains in post for now
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