Sunday shows round-up: Hunt insists Budget will be ‘responsible’

Jeremy Hunt: Budget will be ‘prudent and responsible’

Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt gave an interview on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg in which he tried to manage expectations regarding potential tax cuts. Without mentioning any specific details, he said the ‘most unconservative’ thing he could do would be to lower taxes by borrowing more. However, Hunt did hint there might be some form of cut, arguing that the economies growing fastest globally are those with lower taxes, and suggesting he wanted to ‘show a path in that direction’.

Will Hunt ‘steal’ Labour’s non-dom tax policy?

Kuenssberg asked Jeremy Hunt about the expectation that he might both cut national insurance, and adopt Labour’s plan to tighten up the rules around non-dom tax status. She also questioned whether Hunt might now disagree with his own statement in 2022 that he would rather non-doms stayed in the country and ‘spent their money here’. Hunt refused to talk about any specific taxes, and would not comment on his earlier statement.