Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warns 'nothing off table' on tax cuts as senior Tory says government behaving like 'libertarian jihadists'

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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warns 'nothing off table' on tax cuts as senior Tory says government behaving like 'libertarian jihadists'
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A senior Tory has accused the government of looking 'like libertarian jihadists' and treating the country as 'laboratory mice' over the past few weeks

Ahead of Mr Kwarteng's sacking, Mr Halfon accused Ms Truss of trashing"the last 10 years" of Conservative government during a meeting of backbench Tory MPs she was addressing.

He told Sophy Ridge on Sunday it was"disingenuous" to say it is entirely due to global events and said the UK economy was similar to Germany, but now looks"more like Italy and Greece".Is defence spending pledge off the books?

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