Press Conference

[d000hg]

Hunt is in - so expect another reversal

Depend if they toss the whole Kwasi-budget in favour of a new one, or try to 'fix it'. The fewer U-turns they have to make the better and IR35 is not a headline-grabber. Will Hunt be asked to start over?

[WTFH]

Hunt is an interesting choice because after leaving the leadership contest he basically said his time on the front benches was over.

Rees-Mogg also said he would never work for another PM after Boris.

[SueEllen]

The tweet where Kwasi posted his letter about "being asked to step aside" seems to have disappeared.

The letter to Kwasi with his own name at the bottom... is that actually a cock-up or just the paperwork they use having the addressee on the bottom?

Protocol for their paperwork.

[jamesbrown]

Unfortunately not, it's just convention to put the name of the recipient at the bottom. It's her sig.

Ah, right you are. But it says something that you expect them to even screw that up.

[SueEllen]

Rees-Mogg also said he would never work for another PM after Boris.

But Rees-Mogg is on planet Nadine Dory. There is Hunt is more in the real world.

[jamesbrown]

Depend if they toss the whole Kwasi-budget in favour of a new one, or try to 'fix it'. The fewer U-turns they have to make the better and IR35 is not a headline-grabber. Will Hunt be asked to start over?

I expect he will be asked to start over, but how do you start over with an SDLT cut already in place? Difficult. They will probably reverse most of it, including the Chapter 10 reversal because that is easy to do (and helps with the OBR scoring).

[ensignia]

Hopefully they'll do a bunch of reversals. The NI increase reversal is fair enough, the rest of the cuts were ill-advised and ludicrous.

All those permietractors getting carried away a month ago when they thought they could get an Outside IR35 contract again in April

[SueEllen]

Well that was short.

She said nothing. Asked and didn't answer 4 questions then ran away.

[AtW]

Pathetic

Labour kandslide now guaranteed and they will increase taxes further, a plague on both of their houses

[Unix]

Scrapped the scraping of Corp tax increase