Expanded childcare and extended energy bill support expected to be announced during Jeremy Hunt’s first budget
Earlier I said in a post that the Treasury did not release the normal pre-budget photograph last night of the chancellor working on his speech with aides. I’ve taken it down, because it turned out they did; it was just hard to find them, because they weren’t in the usual place. Here’s one. The caption does not say Jeremy Hunt and his aides are looking at, but perhaps it was the news that the Guardian was splashing their big announcement.
Overnight the Treasury released an extract from Jeremy Hunt’s budget speech. He will say:
In the autumn we took difficult decisions to deliver stability and sound money.
Today, we deliver the next part of our plan: a budget for growth.
Continue reading…Expanded childcare and extended energy bill support expected to be announced during Jeremy Hunt’s first budgetEarlier I said in a post that the Treasury did not release the normal pre-budget photograph last night of the chancellor working on his speech with aides. I’ve taken it down, because it turned out they did; it was just hard to find them, because they weren’t in the usual place. Here’s one. The caption does not say Jeremy Hunt and his aides are looking at, but perhaps it was the news that the Guardian was splashing their big announcement.Overnight the Treasury released an extract from Jeremy Hunt’s budget speech. He will say:In the autumn we took difficult decisions to deliver stability and sound money.Today, we deliver the next part of our plan: a budget for growth. Continue reading…