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Announced by his predecessor, kwasi kwarteng, in last month's mini—budgetjust three weeks ago. in an emergency statement this morning, he abandoned indefinitely the planned ip cut in the basic income tax that was due to come next year. help with energy bills will now only last until next april. instead of for two years, and then that will be reviewed. today, jeremy hunt claimed all of those announcements will save £32 billion a year, but he also warned that there are going to be more difficult decisions ahead on tax and spending to cut government debt. he will be addressing mps in the commo...

Times because of the damage that has been caused to the electricity infrastructure in this country. we are seeing now that the russians are using more these drones to attack civilian sites and civilian infrastructure. obviously, what happened to date came a week after those missile strikes across the country, including here in the capital kyiv, which affected, perhaps, the sense of relative safety that many people felt here in this city, and again today civilian sites, civilian areas of this capital being attacked during the morning rush—hour and nowi capital being attacked during the mornin...

Responding to the announcement that the repeal of Off Payroll regulations – along with the majority of the Mini Budget plans – will now be scrapped, Tan...

The tax measures announced in the growth plan three weeks ago that have not started parliamentary legislation. the basic rate of income tax will remain at 20% and it will do so indefinitely until economic circumstances allow for it to be cut. i am announcing today a treasury led review into how we support energy bills beyond april next year. the objective is to design a new approach that will cost the taxpayer significantly less than planned. our chief political correspondent, nick eardley is still at westminster for us this lunchtime. that was an emergency statement aimed at the financial mar...

Think reason for optimism and i think reason for optimism and i think they probably punched above their weight at this stage in a four—year olympic cycle. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. now it is over tojoanna in westminster. it has been an extremely busy day here in westminster and there is plenty more to come. let me bring it up—to—date. the new chancellor, jeremy hunt, has overturned almost all of the tax measures that when i was just three weeks ago as part of liz truss' growth plan. he says he wa...