Hunt on Truss: ‘She’s willing to change’

Liz Truss’s gaoler has just done another BBC interview. Jeremy Hunt continued to try and give himself maximum room for manoeuvre, saying ‘I’m not taking anything off the table’. He repeated his message:

We are going to have to take some very difficult decisions both on spending and on tax. Spending is not going to increase by as much as people hoped, and indeed we’re going to have to ask all government departments to find more efficiencies than they’d planned. And taxes are not going to go down as quickly as people thought, and some taxes are going to go up.

It will be fascinating to see if Truss is as direct on this when she is asked the question at PMQs next week.

Hunt also pledged that the Halloween fiscal statement would be ‘a bit like a Budget’ and that the government would ‘properly account for every penny.’