Jeremy Hunt, the earnest vicar, puts the House of Commons to sleep ✒️ RobDotHutton via ipaperviews BudgetDay2023
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt delivering his Budget to the House of Commons on Wednesday
At the end of a Budget speech, there are a few bits of necessary procedure that the Chancellor has to perform so that the tax changes they have just announced can take effect. After Jeremy Hunt had sat down on Wednesday, someone had to nudge him to remind him to play his part. But he could be forgiven for daydreaming – the rest of us had drifted off whileThe day had begun with the Conservative benches of the House of Commons in party mood.
They may have regretted this once Hunt began to speak. They’d been promised a magician, and instead they got an earnest vicar delivering a sermon on the symbolism of clay in the Book of Jeremiah. It was probably very important, but as weAt times Hunt went so quiet that we wondered if he needed his batteries changing. Perhaps, with electricity costing what it does, he could only afford to deliver a low-energy speech.
Hunt is the kind of Jane Austen clergyman whose unintentional jokes are much funnier than the deliberate ones. He said he wanted to help the over-50s. “My younger officials have termed these people ‘older workers’, although as a 56-year-old myself I prefer the term ‘experienced’.” This earned him a polite titter. Then he turned to Deputy Speaker Eleanor Laing, who was in the chair.
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