Can tax cuts save the Tories?
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:02.0 | Today, all you need to know about what Jeremy Hunt's Autumn statement means for you and the British Economy. |
| 0:19.0 | Today and focus is supported by AAT, experts in finance training for over 40 years. |
| 0:27.0 | Successful businesses understand their finances. |
| 0:30.3 | So, does your team know their assets from their cash flow? |
| 0:34.0 | AAT offers a wide range of training |
| 0:37.0 | from one day courses to apprenticeships and formal qualifications. |
| 0:41.0 | They've been delivering qualifications for over four decades and now |
| 0:46.2 | 80,000 people a year train with AAT. Major UK employers, including Boots and |
| 0:52.1 | Network Rail, trust AAT to deliver the real world accounting |
| 0:56.1 | skills they need. |
| 0:58.4 | To find out more, search AAT Training. training. If there is one thing that gets conservative politicians out of bed in the morning, |
| 1:15.0 | it's the thought of cutting taxes. |
| 1:18.0 | I want to cut taxes. I believe in cutting taxes. |
| 1:22.0 | And yet even after the Treasury had been dropping hints |
| 1:24.9 | all week that yes there would be tax cuts coming, the chance list still |
| 1:29.7 | managed something of a surprise. So today Mr, I'm going to cut the main 12% rate of employee national insurance. |
| 1:38.8 | A full 2% points of national insurance. |
| 1:42.0 | If I cut it by one percentage point to 11%, |
| 1:46.0 | that would be an extra 225 pounds |
| 1:49.4 | in the pockets of the average worker every year. |
| 1:53.0 | But instead I'm going to go further and cut the main rate of employee national insurance |
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