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In a televised address, Hunt confirmed that he would drop most of the tax measures in the disastrous fiscal statement of September 23 — which sent the pound plummeting to 40-year lows and borrowing costs soaring - apart from a £13-billion cut to national insurance and £1.5 billion in stamp duty changes.
Hunt has said he will also water down the government’s energy price guarantee - a package estimated to be worth at least £150 billion to limit average energy bills to £2500. He said it would now provide universal support until April, but support after would then be scaled back and targeted.
The divisions within the same political party is astounding. No policy is what it is.
The next reversal - mere weeks away, if not days - involves the Prime Minister being hauled out of office. Maybe next time don’t let the PM be chosen by little more than a mid-sized conference centre of rabid, xenophobic, Daily Mail reading party members? A GE NEEDS CALLED. NOW.
Strong and Stable