🔴 The rest of the hole – about £30bn – will come from spending cuts.
Yet Mr Hunt was keen to stress he would be protecting key parts of public services, telling MPs: 'To be British is to be compassionate' telegraph.co.uk/business/econo…
🔴 The spending cuts include:
💷 Personal taxation = £5bn
💷 Windfall tax = £10bn
💷 Business taxes = £10bn
💷 Whitehall efficiencies = £22bn
💷 Other savings = £8bn telegraph.co.uk/business/econo…
Pensioners
Mr Hunt confirmed that the state pension triple lock would remain in place and state pension payments will rise by 10.1pc next April, based on September's inflation figure telegraph.co.uk/tax/news/winne…
🔵 Winners [continued]
Energy bill payers
The Chancellor announced how the energy support package would work after the current scheme ends in April. Average bills will be capped for 12 months at £3,000 telegraph.co.uk/tax/news/winne…
🔴 Losers
High earners
Mr Hunt confirmed that the threshold for paying the 45p top rate of income tax would be lowered from £150,000 to £125,140 telegraph.co.uk/tax/news/winne…
🔴 Losers [continued]
Taxpayers
The freeze on income tax and National Insurance thresholds – currently frozen until 2025-26 – has been extended by two years until April 2028 telegraph.co.uk/tax/news/winne…
🔴 Losers [continued]
Investors
The tax-free dividend allowance will be reduced to £1,000 in 2023-24 and then to £500 in 2024-25 telegraph.co.uk/tax/news/winne…
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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.