Tom Tugendhat is publicly pressuring Jeremy Hunt to go further on defence spending, after last week’s Budget ignored calls to provide a boost to Britain’s security. Speaking this morning, the security minister defended an article he co-authored on Friday, calling for the
Two ministers have urged the government to increase defence spending in the face of growing threats. Anne-Marie Trevelyan, a foreign office minister and former defence minister, and Tom Tugendhat, the security minister and an experienced soldier, have broken ranks. The pair published
Nigel Farage hit out at Jeremy Hunt after projected net migration levels were revised up to 315,000 a year. The former Ukip leader insisted it “just isn’t good enough” and highlighted Tory pledges to bring net migration down to tens of thousands
Voters have “lost all hope” in the Conservative government, a leading pollster has warned after the first major survey following yesterday’s Budget showed that it had failed to shift public opinion at all. The weekly Techne UK tracker poll for Express.co.uk has
Jeremy Hunt loses it with Amol Rajan in fiery Radio 4 interview Jeremy Hunt insisted the Government has done an “enormous amount for pensioners” after economists claimed older voters are the biggest losers from the Budget. The Chancellor insisted senior citizens have
Jeremy Hunt lost it with the BBC this morning, accusing one of the corporation’s top stars of misleading listeners about the state of the economy. Today presenter Amol Rajan asked whether Mr Hunt’s Budget “met the moment” given the problems the economy
Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget has allocated hundreds of millions of pounds to a hub development project in one of London’s financial centres. The Chancellor announced today that £242million would be provided for a new “levelling up” scheme targeting Canary Wharf, nearly doubling
Jeremy Hunt cut another 2p off national insurance and vowed to abolish the tax altogether to save workers thousands of pounds. An upbeat Chancellor yesterday told the Daily Express that he was confident “better times are ahead” as inflation heads back to
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will maintain his plan to increase public spending by 1% a year over the course of the next parliament. He insisted today’s Budget will “grow the economy” and deliver “better public services”. Speaking at a Selco Builders Warehouse in
Some fifty-odd minutes into Jeremy Hunt’s highly anticipated Budget Tory MPs were woken from their collective slumber. A snarling, shouting, finger-jabbing Angela Rayner sending them bolt upright in an instant, followed by a cacophony of jeering and cheering. She let fly after