Hunt cuts national insurance in pre-election Budget giveaway

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : But as he insisted those with the "broadest shoulders" will pay more, he committed to scrapping the non-dom status for wealthy foreigners, putting the £2.7 billion a year raised as a result towards tax cuts.
51% : The Chancellor said he will maintain his plan to increase public spending by 1% a year over the course of the next parliament, although the OBR said the plans "imply no real growth in public spending per person over the next five years".
50% : The Chancellor confirmed a 2p cut in national insurance for employees and the self-employed as the centrepiece of a Budget which sought to persuade voters to stick with the Conservatives rather than give Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer the keys to No 10.Mr Hunt also offered more help with child benefits for parents earning more than £50,000 and cut the top rate of capital gains tax on property sales - arguing that reducing it from 28% to 24% will bring in more money because of increased activity.
45% : The Chancellor also offered more than £1 billion in extra tax breaks for the creative industries over the next five years.
44% : The Chancellor told MPs that, by delivering on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's economic priorities, "we can now help families not just with temporary cost-of-living support but with permanent cuts in taxation".
40% : And he confirmed a new British ISA will allow an extra £5,000 of tax-free investment in UK assets.

*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.