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Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, said, ‘We can now move on to the next phase of our economic plan and turn our attention to cutting taxes,’ having seen a reduction in inflation. Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, followed suit in the Autumn Statement, cutting personal taxes. The government was to make changes to long-term benefits. The minimum wage, known officially as the National Living Wage, currently £10.42 an hour for those over the age of 23, will rise to £11.44 an hour for those over 21 from next April. The government also drew attention to £8.3 billion allocated to mending potholes, money purportedly saved from the curtailment of the HS2 project. Households living close to new pylons would receive compensation. Nigel Farage took part in I’m a Celebrity… for a fee of £1.5 million.
In the wake of the Supreme Court judgment that the government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful, Sunak said: ‘I am prepared to do what is necessary to get flights off.’
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