Chancellor Jeremy Hunt set to address MPs hours after scrapping almost all of Liz Truss’s tax measures
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has ditched almost all of PM Liz Truss's tax cuts announced in the government's mini-budget three weeks agoEarlier, Leader of the House Penny Mordaunt stood in for the PM and answered questions about the sacking of Kwasi Kwarteng
Truss is now in the Commons - Mordaunt was repeatedly asked where she was after she said the PM was "detained on urgent business" This morning Hunt announced the basic rate of income tax would remain at 20p indefinitely - instead of being cutBut cuts to stamp duty and National Insurance remain in place
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