Politics

As he appeared on ITV's Peston, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt refused to answer question on how many properties he owns after announcing a Budget tax break for landlords

Rishi Sunak cryptically responded 'what matters is the choice' when asked by BBC presenter Jeremy Vine whether he would be calling a May election

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt got annoyed as BBC Radio 4 Today programme presenter Amol Rajan accused him of failing to do enough to turn around the economy in the Budget

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was accused of acting like Liz Truss after he said in the Budget he wanted to scrap National Insurance altogether without saying how he'd pay for it

Mum-of-two Rhian works as a nurse on an acute hospital ward and has been in the NHS for 26 years. The 45-year-old from Leeds said the real terms pay cuts are forcing nurses out

MPs from the cross-party Business and Trade Committee called for the Government to speed up paying compensation for victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal

Overnight analysis of Jeremy Hunt's Budget by the Resolution Foundation raised the alarm about public service cuts and highlighted a huge drop in disposable income since 2019

Jeremy Hunt tried to bribe voters by cutting national insurance again and offering a small increase in child benefit - but nobody is going to fall for this Tory con trick

The landlady of one formerly thriving village pub said the Budget had ended any hope of it staying open. It comes as grassroots Campaign for Pubs called Wednesday's announcements “an absolutely dreadful Budget for UK pubs”

Suella Braverman said Jeremy Hunt's Budget doesn't 'tell the British people that we're on their side and that work really pays' ahead of a brutal post-election leadership race

After many scandals and an investigation into his conduct, Boris Johnson stepped down as PM and MP - but what has the controversial former Prime Minister been up to since?

Keir Starmer demanded Rishi Sunak call a general election now as he accused him of being 'out of touch, out of ideas and nearly out of road' as the Budget flopped

'Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is gambling voters will swallow the sugar-rush of tax cuts and ignore the bitter taste of further public spending cuts,' the Mirror's Jason Beattie writes

Robert Palmer, executive director at Tax Justice UK, says Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has delivered a 'cut and run' Budget which will spell more agony for public services

Jeremy Hunt said he was scrapping non-dom tax loopholes in the Budget - but exemption from inheritance tax isn't part of the changes introduced today

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the public should have been given a budget offering a 'glimmer of hope' - but instead there's just more of the same from the Tories

TUC general secretary Paul Nowak warns that "zombie" Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has put forward a "deeply cynical" budget while public services are on their knees

'The fight has gone out of Jeremy Hunt and the Tories, that lightweight Budget a wave of white flag. It’s as if the battered Conservatives are surrendering after four election wins'

Science and Tech Secretary Michelle Donelan has faced calls to resign after taxpayers were forced to foot the legal bill after she falsely accused an academic of expressing sympathy for Hamas

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt unveiled the 2024 Budget today with tax cuts and freezes to alcohol and fuel duty as he tried to drum up support for the flailing Tory party

Rock superstar Dave Rowntree will fight in the Tory-held seat of Mid-Sussex - where redrawn boundaries have created a three-way battle in the 2024 general election

Jeremy Hunt unveiled his Spring budget today, announcing plans to cut National Insurance to save workers an average of £450 a year. It's safe to say the event went better than a previous Tory conference

Sir Keir Starmer branded the budget 'the last desperate act of a party that has failed' - saying the Conservatives 'give with one hand and take even more with the other'

Labour said the 'ink isn't even dry' on the Spring Budget after Energy Minster Andrew Bowie said it was 'deeply disappointing' a windfall tax has been extended

The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announces an NI tax giveaway and non-dom tax U-turn at the Budget in a desperate attempt to turn around the Tories' dire ratings in the polls