What Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement means for you
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Mr Hunt has pledged to increase spending on the NHS and education while increasing the amount of tax paid by the highest earners, as the Office for Budget Responsibility has predicted that living standards are going to fall by 7% over the next two years.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by Sky's political editor Beth Rigby and economics and data editor Ed Conway to go through the government's plan to fix the economy and ask if this was the only approach the chancellor could have taken.
Editor - Philly Beaumont
Podcast producer - Rosie Gillott
Digital producer - David Chipakupaku
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| 0:00.0 | Pain in my hip. |
| 0:02.0 | I keep feeling dizzy. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm getting migraines more often. |
| 0:09.6 | There's another way to contact your GP practice |
| 0:12.4 | by simply sending your symptoms and requests |
| 0:15.2 | through their website or the NHS app. |
| 0:18.2 | We're delivering an NHS fit for the future. |
| 0:21.7 | Tap it, type it, and we'll take care of it. |
| 0:24.3 | Julia, how do you spell vertebrae? |
| 0:27.0 | Oh, just tight pain in the neck. |
| 0:29.9 | You know, when Helen used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? |
| 0:34.5 | Fine, she'd say. |
| 0:36.1 | She clearly wasn't. |
| 0:41.3 | After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. Then she found this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, same skills but with |
| 0:47.3 | new people, new challenges. |
| 0:49.3 | Now when she gets back, I get the full debrief. |
| 0:52.3 | Can't get a word in. |
| 0:55.1 | Give your skills new life. Train others. Search jobs in further education. |
| 1:00.2 | It was the busiest of days in Westminster. Our fourth chancellor in four months, |
| 1:05.3 | Jeremy Hunt, delivering his much-anticipated fiscal statement. And boy, oh boy, was it a doozy. We've been promised, |
| 1:13.6 | or perhaps warned, of lots of difficult decisions, of testing times ahead, of tax rises |
| 1:18.6 | and spending cuts, and Mr Hunt did not disappoint. I'm Neil Patterson, and this is the Sky News Daily. |
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