Jeremy Hunt nailed over claim to be cutting taxes for working people
Jeremy Hunt: he was laughing on the other side of his face when Martin Lewis had finished with him.
It’s great when someone nails a Tory politician over a falsehood they uttered.
Here’s what happened when Martin Lewis met Jeremy Hunt on the Martin Lewis Money Show, according to the Daily Express:
Appearing on January 9’s Martin Lewis Money Show, Mr Hunt insisted that he wants to cut even further to put more cash into ordinary people’s pockets during the cost of living crisis.
But Mr Lewis floated the idea that he’d only brought in cuts to National Insurance on January 6 – a date he branded “unusual” – so that people could see the modest benefit of the policy before fiscal drag means No10 taking more cash through taxes.
Mr Hunt insisted that “we wanted to bring it in as quickly as we could” in order that people could have vital cash “after a period in which taxes have gone up in order to pay for the cost of the pandemic”.
The Chancellor – who has been repeatedly urged to cut taxes further with a general election looming – added: “We can’t get all the way back to where we were before the pandemic in one go.”
Mr Lewis pressed the Chancellor…
Indeed he did:
Look at Jeremy Hunt's face at the end after Martin Lewis has nailed him.
He won't be doing another interview with Lewis that's for sure. pic.twitter.com/XEyJxb4EWM
— BladeoftheSun (@BladeoftheS) January 10, 2024
He was exactly right – as This Writer explained here.
No wonder Hunt looked like a rabbit, caught in the beam of a car’s headlights. He had nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
And it made any further tax-cutting promises seem equally deceitful.
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Hunt looked like he was thinking, ‘Shit! This guy KNOWS WHAT HE’S TALKING ABOUT!’
National Insurance was 10 per cent for most women and half of men til 2016. NI then rose 5.85 per cent between worker and boss.
As 1950s ladies became National Insurance experts by being victims of the like of Jeremy Hunt, am seeking volunteer admin to bring new political party into existence, with policies that include:
– £15,230 personal tax allowance (so unfrozen)
– 5.85 per cent worker National Insurance contributions between that risen personal tax allowance and around £71,000 wages. Then 10 per cent beyond that salary (only pay 2 per cent now).
– 5.85 per cent self employed NI contributions, then 8 per cent on higher profit (only pay 2 per cent now).
Please contact through website http://www.over50sparty.org.uk