Jeremy Hunt

The Edinburgh International Book Festival runs from 9 - 24 August this year

Vladimir McTavish: Beware the radical enemy within - the Edinburgh Book Festival

Changes to wages and National Insurance for Employers

Employers to pay thousands more in National Insurance from April

Cllr Kate Campbell

Cockney Kate misses the point - John McLellan

Child poverty: 'It's like we're in a Dickens novel'

Budget will hurt Scottish Tories at general election

Scotland's deputy First Minister Shona Robison

Gaslighting is a very hard habit to break for SNP - Sue Webber

Chancellor Of The Exchequer Jeremy Hunt poses with members of the Treasury staff as he leaves 11 Downing Street to deliver the Budget

No apology for crashing the economy - Ian Murray

Jeremy Hunt

Five key points from the Budget announcement

Jeremy Hunt will announce the 2024 Budget. Credit: Kim Mogg/Getty/Adobe

Budget 2024: Hunt cuts NI again and reforms child benefit

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt

Defeatist budget will do deep damage to key services - Sue Webber

Finance secretary Shona Robison

Robison ready to pass the buck - John McLellan

Bassetlaw District Council is calling on residents to let friends and family living abroad know about changes to voter registration in UK general elections.

Labour set to make gains from SNP in Lothian, poll predicts

Possible SNP future leader: Net Zero and Just Transition Secretary Màiri McAllan. Image: Jane Barlow/Press Association.

UK politics may be changing, but Scotland will have to wait - John McLellan

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt.

Difference north and south of border is stark - Sue Webber

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s spring budget will be on March 6

- Ian Murray: Happy new election year resolutions to all

Inflation dropped to 3.9% in November, the lowest level in more than two years. (Credit: AFP via Getty Images)

Inflation drops to lowest level in more than two years
The inflation rate in November dropped to its lowest level in more than two years
Heather Carrick

Jeremy Hunt gives the Autumn Statement. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Mark Hall

Grangemouth closure is bad news for Scotland - Sue Webber

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt delivers his autumn statement

the Tories can’t be trusted to deliver economic competence - Ian Murray

Jeremy Hunt will announce the Autumn Statement today. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Mark Hall

Watch the Chancellor's autumn statement speech here

The Beatles each received an MBE at Buckingham Palace, 26th October 1965. From left to right, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A spectacular week for fans of time travel - Vladimir McTavish

The UK's economy has grown by 0.2% in August, with car manufacturing leading the economic boost over the past three months. (Credit: Getty Images)

UK economy grew by 0.2% in August as service sector provides boost

Rishi Sunak is reportedly drawing up plans to slash inheritance tax as he looks to attract voters ahead of the next general election. Credit: Getty Images

Rishi Sunak considering inheritance tax cut

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s brother Charlie has died of cancer aged 53

Jeremy Hunt’s brother dies from cancer aged 53

King Charles III is to receive a 45 per cent pay rise from the UK taxpayer (Picture: Daniel Leal/PA)

One way of keeping ahead of rising prices is to give yourself a pay rise that’s ...

Supermarkets are being told to cut the price of petrol

Supermarkets told to cut petrol prices by watchdog

This is the first time inflation has dropped below double digits since August last year - but concerns remain over the rate at which food prices are increasing..

Inflation drops to 8.7%, food costs still high - how it affects you

The first instalment of the £900 cost of living payments is set to land in bank accounts today. The £301 cash boost from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and HMRC will be paid to those who are eligible over the next few weeks from Tuesday, April 25.

Cost of living payment to land in bank accounts from today
The first instalment of the £900 cost of living payment will be paid from today - here’s everything you need to know including what code will show up in your bank account.
Sophie Wills

As the cost-of-living crisis continues, many households are struggling financially

Cost of living payments will start to land in bank accounts next week

Teachers are among just one of the many professions striking

Who is striking and when in 2023?

BBC Panorama shared research that shows the cost of fifteen years of wage stagnation on British workers

UK wage stagnation costing British workers £11,000 per year

Fringe Society chief excutive Shona McCarthy. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Edinburgh International Festival and Fringe set to share £8.6m Budget boost

Sue Webber is a Scottish Conservative MSP for the Lothians

Hunt’s grown up budget is a lesson for SNP - Sue Webber

CAMRA have responded to the Spring Budget

CAMRA says local pubs still under threat despite draught duty cut

Experts from the industry have given an insight into what effect Jeremy Hunt’s new Spring Budget will have on the UK housing market.

What does spring budget mean for housing market? Zoopla forecast

Smoking is now at least 15% more expensive following Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget 2023 - Credit: Adobe

Bad news for smokers: Cigarettes now cost more than ever

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt leaves 11 Downing Street, London, with his ministerial box before delivering the UK Budget (Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

Why UK Budget is a continuation of the Tories’ 13 years of failure – Ian Murray

Martin Lewis reacts to Jeremy Hunt’s budget after Chancellor name checks him and ‘calls speaker old’

Budget 2023: Martin Lewis gives his verdict

Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt poses with the red Budget Box as he leaves 11 Downing Street in central London on March 15, 2023, to present the government’s annual budget to Parliament. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Budget 2023: Living standards to fall by 6% - OBR

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced 30 hours of free childcare for one and two year olds

Budget 2023: Free childcare for under 5s explained

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt addressed the House of Commons with his Spring Budget 2023 on Wednesday - Credit: Getty Images

Key announcements from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget 2023

RMT general secretary Mick Lynch (centre) on an RMT picket line during January’s strike (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Who is on strike today? Teachers & junior doctors included

Chancellor set to extend fuel duty cut beyond March

The Energy Price Guarantee (EPG) will remain at £2,500 for an additional three months.

Budget 2023: Energy Price Guarantee to be extended to June

Ukrainian and Czech circus artists performed at the McEwan Hall during last year's Fringe (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Chancellor's £8.6m festivals boost likely to prompt Scottish Government reaction

Samantha Pierre-Joseph shows her smart meter indicating that she is on a ‘Prepayment tariff’ in her house in London.

Millions of struggling households set to see energy bills slashed

File photo dated 17/11/2022 of Jeremy Hunt who will set out a Spring Budget on March 15 2023, the Treasury has said. The Chancellor on Monday commissioned an Office for Budget Responsibility forecast, which will be presented alongside the budget. Issue date: Monday December 19, 2022.

UK job vacancies fall for eighth time in a row

Assembly is one of the biggest venue operators at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Picture: William Burdett-Coutts

Chancellor to hand Edinburgh's festivals £8.6m funding boost in Spring Budget

Energy secretary Grant Shapps is set to appear on the Martin Lewis Money Show

Energy secretary Grant Shapps to appear on the Martin Lewis Money Show

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt may look to extend the current energy support scheme in the upcoming Budget, which would allow households to benefit from the current £2,500 cap for longer before it increases to £3,000 a year.

Hunt ‘poised to keep energy price cap down’ as support scheme ends

The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) said pub landlords and breweries are struggling with the soaring cost of energy, alcohol and food

Pubs warn of 2000 closures without government support for energy bills

Ofgem announced the details on Monday.

Ofgem sets new price cap of £3,280

Tobacco duty set to rise causing a jump in cigarette prices

The government could tell GPs to issue less sick notes in order to boost the economy.

Government could tell GPs to sign fewer sick notes to boost economy

The UK economy has avoided a recession

UK economy avoids recession in second half of 2022

The PCS Union (Credit: Getty Images)

PCS union announce 100,000 members will strike on Budget Day