- The U.K. government on Thursday unveiled a sweeping fiscal plan aimed at plugging a gaping hole the public finances and restoring Britain’s economic credibility.
- Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt, in his hotly anticipated inaugural Autumn Statement, outlined spending cuts and tax hikes worth £55 billion.
- The measures will increase financial hardship on millions of Britons as they confront the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in decades and its longest-ever recession.
- https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/17/uk-finance-minister-announces-tax-hikes-and-spending-cuts-says-country-is-in-recession.html
