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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered his divisive Autumn Statement on Thursday
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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.

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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.