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Oct 28 4 tweets 2 min read
UPDATE on #AutumnStatement

No final decisions yet taken but #Newsnight understands it will likely...

- Target debt falling as share of GDP in 5 years' time (not 3 years, as per existing rule)...
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- Cuts to departmental spending likely to be pencilled in for *after* the current Spending Review period ends in 2024/25 - though no compensation for departments for higher inflation *in* Spending Review period so de facto real terms cuts...
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- Despite backdating of spending cuts, will still be significant fiscal consolidation in next 2 years aswell

- Real terms cuts to benefits not ruled out, ditto suspension of triple lock

- Capital spending cuts (infrastructure) still in play...
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- Overseas aid will stay at 0.5% of GDP, not rise to 0.7%

Tune in for more on #Newsnight at 1030pm on BBC2

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"I don’t think we’re talking about austerity in the way we had it in 2010" said the new chancellor Jeremy Hunt this morning.

Is this right?

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...Well, we obviously don't yet know what the fiscal hole projected by the @OBR_UK will be.

And we don't know if there will be *more* tax U-turns or *other* tax rises.

But if we take the @TheIFS estimates of the fiscal hole of around £60bn...2/
...subtract the roughly £20bn of tax cut reversals so far (and assume no further tax u-turns) and that implies a remaining hole of £40bn that would have to be filled by spending cuts, or around 1.5% of GDP...3/
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..10 year yields up... Image
...and 5 year too... Image
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Here's the Treasury costings for the #MiniBudget

Around £45bn of tax cuts by 2026-27.

Abolition of additional rate of income tax already axed - reduction of £2bn from that total.

If there is a further tax cut U-turn today, what could go next?...
...speculation about corporation tax move reversal - would mean reduction of £18bn in cost of #miniBudget (blue)

But National Insurance cut has already gone through MPs this week, signalling £15bn (green) unlikely to be recouped...
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Idea the UK bond market crash since last Friday is due to size of energy support package is difficult to square with the fact the UK wholesale gas price is now 321p per therm - lower than the 410p it was on 8 September when the plan was confirmed...
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...so somewhat implausible that it would be this part of the package on Friday which has spooked markets.

Also woth noting that even on the *higher* projections of the cost of the energy support package (£150bn - yellow bars below) it's a *temporary* cause of higher borrowing...
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