Jeremy Hunt
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643 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3 Jun
Jeremy Hunt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That was my growth strategy.
And I could have chosen tax cuts that were much more salient with the electorate, that people understood.
No one was asking for cuts in employees' national insurance.
People wanted cuts in inheritance tax at the time, in stamp duty, in income tax.
Employees National Insurance was not on the list, but that was the tax cut.
If you talk to people like Paul Johnson, that was the tax cut.
Paul said that these are... I have asked him about it.
You're not letting me answer the question, Robert.
Those tax cuts were the ones that had the biggest impact.
Now, if you don't want to do those tax cuts...
then you have to answer the question, what is your plan for economic growth?
Now, in that chapter, I have a whole chapter in that book, in the book, I have a whole chapter on tax.
And I think I prove in that that actually reducing the burden of tax is one of the ways that you grow the economy.
Because if you look around the world, the countries with lower taxes...
are the ones that are growing faster.
And I think we need to go on that difficult journey.
And the only way you can do that is to show restraint in public spending, which is what I also did in that final budget.
That was right.
And her mistake, and actually the reason I became Chancellor, and the reason I, by the way, ended up on holiday in Brussels and getting a text message from Liz Truss, which I thought was a hoax.
What are you doing next week?
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