David Davis, the former Brexit secretary, has said the Autumn Statement will be "gloomy" and he does not expect there to be any rabbits pulled out of the hat by Jeremy Hunt.
Mr Sunak said that "most" of the G20 had strongly condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The PM set out his meetings with Joe Biden and Narendra Modi and said that in his meetings with leaders had been a "shared determination to... drive a better future" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
Sir Keir Starmer said that he and Rishi Sunak have many differences of opinion but "when it comes to the defence of Ukraine we stand as one".
Sir Keir said that "Russia is losing this war" and efforts should now focus on trying to "further isolate Putin" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🔴 Jeremy Hunt is about to deliver his #AutumnStatement in the House of Commons.
Watch Jeremy Hunt set out his fiscal plan to balance the budget live here 👇
🗣️ Jeremy Hunt is now on his feet in the House of Commons.
The Chancellor opened by saying: "We deliver a plan to tackle the cost-of-living crisis and rebuild our economy. Our priorities are stability, growth, and public services"
📢 Jeremy Hunt announced that he is not going to change the remit of the Bank of England.
He told MPs: "So the Bank of England, which has done an outstanding job since its independence, now has my wholehearted support in its mission to defeat inflation"
Jeremy Hunt said that the Autumn Statement will lead to a consolidation of £55 billion.
"The OBR confirm that because of our plans, the recession is shallower, and inflation is reduced. Unemployment is also lower with about 70,000 jobs protected"
🔴 Jeremy Hunt has announced he is reducing the threshold at which people start paying the top rate of income tax as he unveiled his Autumn Statement to stabilise the public finances
Jeremy Hunt has confirmed the Government will proceed with plans for the new Sizewell C nuclear plant.
He told MPs: "It will create 10,000 highly skilled jobs and provide reliable, low-carbon, power to the equivalent of 6 million homes for over 50 years" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
⚡️ Jeremy Hunt has announced fresh funding to improve the nation's energy efficiency.
He also set a new target of reducing energy consumption from buildings and industry by 15 per cent by 2030
💡 Jeremy Hunt said that the Government "will stick with the plan to spend £55bn to help households and businesses with their energy bills" this winter.
He said: "From April, we will continue the Energy Price Guarantee for a further 12 months at a higher level of £3000 per year"
💰 The Chancellor also announced that he is capping the maximum increase in social rents for next year.
He told the House of Commons: "This government will cap the increase in social rents at a maximum of 7% in 2023-24" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
💷 The national living wage will increase by 9.7 per cent next year, the Chancellor has announced.
"From April 2023, the hourly rate will be £10.42 which represents an annual pay rise worth over £1600 to a full time worker"
🗣️Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said that the Tories' #AutumnStatement offers the nation "more of the same"
"What people will be asking themselves at the next general election is this: Am I and my family better off with the Tories? And the answer is no" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
🟠 Sarah Olney, the Liberal Democrats' Treasury spokeswoman, labelled Autumn Statement the "cost of chaos budget".
She said: "This is the cost of chaos budget. Everyone is being forced to pay the price for this Conservative government’s incompetence" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
❓ Who are the winners and losers of the Autumn Statement 2022?
🗣️ 'We know that the Government is short of cash, but Mr Hunt has sent out a worrying message to those working hard to earn more for themselves and their families' | Writes Ben Wilkinson
🗣 'The fiscal drag phenomenon will mean we all pay more as inflation pushes us into higher tax brackets. It blunts pay rises and stunts aspiration' | Writes Ben Wilkinson
🔴House prices will fall by 9pc as high mortgage rates hammer buyers and trigger a two-year housing downturn, the Government’s fiscal watchdog has warned
🔴 The Government is tackling Britain's current economic problems "head-on", Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday evening as he defended £25billion of tax rises
Here's the latest on the global tech outage from reporter @matthfield:
Television channels, airports and banks around the world have been knocked offline in a massive outage causing Windows computers to suddenly shut down.
Sky News’s breakfast show was not on air on Friday morning, replaced by archive footage.
Downdetector, a website which monitors outages, reported sudden spikes in problems with websites including Microsoft applications, banking websites and airline apps.
On Ryanair’s website, the company urged passengers to arrive at airports three hours early blaming a “third party IT issue, which is outside Ryanair’s control and affect all airlines operating across the network”.
Our Senior Technology Reporter @GazTheJourno will be here from 1pm today to answer all of your questions!
Drop them below 👇
✍️ @GazTheJourno: Elon Musk has always wanted to create a company called X.
The first X was in fact an online bank he set up in the late 1990s - and its CEO was Peter Thiel. That company later became PayPal and was bought by eBay in 2002.
@GazTheJourno 🗣️ @GazTheJourno: Twitter’s blue bird logo has been with the site since its creation in 2006. Its branding has always been twee(t!), featuring the bird doing cutesy things including lifting up the fail whale on its ‘site over capacity’ page back in the 2010s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🇺🇦 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures, a Telegraph investigation has found.
🔴 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures.
Oleg Andreev, 65, who is paralysed, was taken by Russian invaders occupying his village in eastern Ukraine. Mr Andreev said his wheelchair was stolen by a Russian soldier, who used it for an
injured comrade.
🇺🇦 Exclusive: Alexander Lukashenko implicated in alleged war crime as boys and girls as young as six are taken to camps in 'forced deportation'
Read this exclusive in full from @sophia_yan, @Nat_Vasilyeva, and @VerityBowman here 👇
@sophia_yan @Nat_Vasilyeva @VerityBowman It is estimated that 2,150 Ukrainian children have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with numbers expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year.
Three of the “camps” are in the Minsk region, namely the Ostroshitsky Gorodok Sanatorium, the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre, and Dubrava children’s camp. The fourth site is the Golden Sands Sanatorium in the Gomel region.
🔴NEW: The US was concerned about what would happen to Russia’s nuclear weapons during the armed coup staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an official has said.