Universal Credit to rise for millions in Tory Autumn Statement U-turn

But Mr Hunt is expected to set out brutal spending plans that will starve public services of the cash they need in order to announce tax cuts. The Tories hope that a tax-slashing bonanza will turn around their dire poll ratings and encourage voters to forget how they have raised taxes more in the past four years than any other Government in history.

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