The Chancellor dismissed the chances of cutting taxes at the upcoming autumn statement
The Chancellor is under pressure to reduce the tax burden at the upcoming autumn statement after stronger-than-expected tax revenues boosted the public finances.rises which suggests the Government’s borrowing costs will stop going up, but insisted that it would not mean room to relax fiscal discipline.
Mr Hunt told LBC: “Every Chancellor wakes up to a newspaper headline, at least once a week that says there’s extra headroom, and the Chancellor might be able to do this or might be able to do that. I really, really wish it was true but unfortunately, it just isn’t. “If you look at what we are having to pay for our long-term debt, it is higher now than it was at the Spring Budget. I wish it wasn’t, it makes life extremely difficult, it makes tax cuts virtually impossible, and it means that I will have another set of frankly very difficult decisions.”
He added: “All I would say is if we do want those long-term debt costs to come down, then we need to really stick to this plan to get inflation down, get interest rates down. I don’t know when that’s going to happen. But I don’t think it’s going to happen before the autumn statement on 22 November.”