17 key points from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Budget speech

  • Bias Rating

    24% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    24% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    20% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : This doubles period over which taper works so cuts marginal tax rates.
55% : He said abolishing the non-dom status would raise £2.7 billion a year - which Labour, which had championed the policy, had pledged to put into NHS funding but which Mr Hunt put towards tax cuts.
52% : "Overall abolishing non-dom status will raise £2.7 billion a year by the end of the forecast period, money the party opposite (Labour) planned to use for spending increases, but today a Conservative government makes a different choice.
52% : He said he was going to reduce the higher rate of property capital gains tax from 28% to 24%, joking to Ms Rayner: "That one really is for Angela."
48% : "Mr Hunt said £170 million would be used to fund "non-court resolution, reduce reoffending and digitise the court process".
43% : He told MPs: "Because we are delivering the Prime Minister's economic priorities, we can now help families not just with temporary cost-of- living support but with permanent cuts in taxation.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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