Jeremy Hunt unveils dash for growth Budget to beat slump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : In the race to put Britain at the front of the transition to green energy, Mr Hunt trumpeted £20 billion of investment over the next 20 years to transform carbon capture technology and help to create up to 50,000 highly skilled jobs.
51% : The Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that this will mean around an extra £500 of tax a year for many basic rate tax payers, as inflation and wages rise, and some £1,000 for many higher rate payers.
40% : Taxes will continue to rise for millions of workers through a series of so-called "stealth taxes", including freezing the thresholds above which people start paying the 20p basic rate of income tax and the 40p higher rate until 2028, at £12,570 and £50,270 retrospectively.

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