The abolition of the health and care levy is now the only major part of the discredited mini-Budget to survive after new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt today junked most of the other tax cuts in a dramatic announcement.
Mr Hunt said that it was ‘an essential responsibility’ for government to do ‘what is necessary’ for economic security and ‘to give certainty about the sustainability of the public finances’ for financial markets.
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