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Jeremy Hunt confirmed that the UK was “now in recession” as he announced tax hikes and public spending cuts totalling £55bn in his Autumn Statement this week.
Revealing the government’s budget plans, the chancellor said the UK needed to give “the world confidence in our ability to pay our debts”. His plans leave Britain facing the highest level of taxation since the Second World War, as households nationwide feel the effects of the cost-of-living crisis and a record fall in living standards.
Hunt told the BBC this morning that his fiscal plans were necessary to “get through” the recession, “bring inflation down and grow the economy healthily when we get to the other side”.
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Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the Autumn Statement was effectively “an invoice for the economic carnage the government has created”.
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Need a reminder of some of the other headlines over the past seven days?
- Donald Trump announced plans to run for the US presidency in 2024, setting the stage for a showdown with Ron DeSantis, his main rival to be the Republican candidate
- An Iranian court issued the first death sentence related to the anti-government protests that have rocked the country following the death of Mahsa Amini
- Nato said a missile strike that killed two people in Poland was likely to have been fired by Ukrainian forces in response to a Russian attack
- EU negotiators at Cop27 backed a “loss and damage” fund for poor countries hit hard by the effects of climate change.
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Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.
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