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To fiscal unsustainability, it still is. nothing really has changed. the big story that this is a a0 — now 43 billion as opposed to a £115 billion tax giveaway remains. after record falls in the price of uk government bonds last week in reaction to the mini budget, there was some relief that the government was adapting its plans. but traders are still worried. but traders are still worried kwasi kwarteng's plans aren't credible. this is the chart you want to watch in this crisis. it shows you the cost of borrowing money at a fixed rate of interest over five years. and it's that that determi...

Alistair darling brought it in back in 2009, the top rate for top earners has been a political dividing line. in 2013, george osborne cut it from 50p to 45p. it's paid by those earning more than £150,000 a year. that's around 660,000 people. scrapping it would have saved those higher earners on average £10,000 a year. this was the smallest measure from a fiscal point of view, if not a political point of view, in the mini budget. it is about 5% of the tax cuts, so to the extent that what we saw a couple of weeks ago was leading to fiscal unsustainability, it still is. nothing really has chang...

5% of the tax cuts to the extent that what we saw a couple of weeks ago was leading to fiscal and sustainability. nothing really has changed. this is now 43 billion as opposed to a £45 billion tax giveaway, it remains. at opposed to a £45 billion tax giveaway, it remains. at the record falls in the — giveaway, it remains. at the record falls in the price of— giveaway, it remains. at the record falls in the price of uk _ giveaway, it remains. at the record falls in the price of uk government| falls in the price of uk government bonds last week in reaction to the mini budget, there was som...

Listen, they will take opinion seriously, clearly, this will make a difference, a small difference to overall levels of inequality, but the big story, 43 billion as opposed to £45 billion tax giveaway remains, and the story remains that we have not had forecasting for the officer of budget responsibility, we are pretty confident that on current tax and spending plans the government is on course to have an unsustainable fiscal policy, debt rising over time. from that point of view, it is pretty much as we were. the pound has rallied today. _ pretty much as we were. the pound has rallied today....

The extent of the u—turn in financial terms is modest. the £45 billion of unfunded tax cuts becomes £43 billion. the now abandoned cut in the 45p rate was to cost the exchequer 2 billion pounds but by for a bigger cut was the reversal to the national insurance rise. that's worth £18 billion and that's already been legislated for, and then the largest cut was the abandonment of the rise in corporation tax on company profits, worth nearly £19 billion a year. there could be some pressure for policy reverses here as well as to extend the existing windfall tax on rising energy prices. this uâ...