Budget highlights: Brits boosted by £450 tax cut & child benefit overhaul as Hunt freezes alcohol and fuel duties in giveaway Budget
HARD-working Brits were handed a £450 tax boost today as Jeremy Hunt froze fuel duty for another year and overhauled child benefits.the Chancellor also froze alcohol duty in a massive win for Sun readers after our campaigns to keep booze and fuel tax low.Credit: Simon Walker / No 10 Downing Street
The freeze will save the average car driver £50 next year and bring total savings since the 5p cut was introduced to around £250. The new tech system should slash 13 million hours currently lost by nurses and doctors every year to outdated computer systems.Mr Hunt said: "The NHS was there for us in the pandemic.Analysis from The Sun's Political Editor Harry ColeThere was lots of shouting, but with the cupboard bare, not as many giveaways as a Chancellor would have liked on the eve of battle.
Also painful is the OBR’s prediction that net migration is going to stay at around 300,000 indefinitely and Tory tax changes have actually made Britain’s workshy issues worse. That said, Hunt has reduced it by 4p, down to 8p in the pound on earnings in just six months, hence why he is dangling the prospect of phasing it out completely over the five years.
And £230m will be spent on rolling out time and money saving technology for cops - including crime stopping drones.have already said they would do the same and earmarked the cash for other projects, leaving a black hole in Shadow ChancellorThat is despite Mr Sunak vowing to reduce the base rate to 19 per cent by the end of this Parliament.
"And higher growth means more opportunity, more prosperity and more funding for our precious public services."Mr Hunt painted Labour as the party holding back business with red tape and bureaucracy.
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