Can Jeremy Hunt get Britain growing?
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The Times
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🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Tomorrow the chancellor Jeremy Hunt will stand up in the House of Commons to deliver his first full budget. With the UK economy at its most stagnant point in two years, is there anything Hunt can do to ease the pain?
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| 0:00.0 | Tomorrow, the Chancellor Jeremy Hunts will stand up in the House of Commons to deliver his |
| 0:10.7 | first full budget. We know it'll start something like this. |
| 0:15.7 | I know, Paul. The Chancellor's next check to make a statement. |
| 0:18.8 | Jeremy Hunts! |
| 0:20.8 | But what might come next? What will he say? |
| 0:23.9 | Mr Speaker. |
| 0:25.5 | And will it be enough to help his party close a huge gap in the polls after the chaos |
| 0:30.7 | of last autumn? |
| 0:32.7 | Turm oil after last week's mini budget by the new government. |
| 0:36.3 | The UK now facing what looks increasingly like a financial crisis. |
| 0:40.3 | Just looking at the pounds and it is quite traumatic. |
| 0:44.1 | It's down by about a full cent against the dollar in a matter of a few seconds. |
| 0:51.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm Jenny Cleeman. |
| 1:00.0 | Today, what will be in the new Chancellor's first full budget? |
| 1:11.0 | My name is Mehreen Khan and I'm the economics editor at the Times. |
| 1:15.0 | So take us back to October. |
| 1:17.0 | Last year, quasi-quarting, he'd just been sacked. |
| 1:20.0 | Jeremy Hunt appointed his Chancellor. |
| 1:23.0 | Liz Truss was just about to resign. |
| 1:25.0 | What were Truss and Quarting trying to do? |
| 1:29.0 | And where did it all go wrong? |
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