It is now just over eight weeks until the Budget. Already we are being 'softened up' for tax rises which the Government wants us to believe are inevitable.
Few criminal cases in modern British history have played on the public conscience quite like that of Lucy Letby. A neonatal nurse convicted of killing babies under her care, writes JEREMY HUNT.
Do I feel sorry for Rachel Reeves? On a personal level, yes, I do recognise she has some unenviable choices. Many of those, however, are because of decisions she herself has made.
I had been Chancellor of the Exchequer for barely a month when it fell to me to deliver the 2022 Autumn Statement, in which I had to tackle a nightmare £72billion black hole.
It was that diplomat and global thinker Henry Kissinger, a great and inspirational friend of mine, who warned the biggest pitfall for any country is self-doubt.
A message from an unrecognised number jumped out at me from my phone: ' Liz Truss here. Please can you give me a call.' Was the Prime Minister really trying to contact me? Surely not.
JEREMY HUNT: If we are to keep Nato together, we and other European countries will need to spend closer to the 3.4 per cent of GDP that the US spends on defence.