What you need to know about Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s crowd-pleasing Autumn Statement announcements certainly did raise eyebrows. Yesterday the Chancellor announced plans to abolish Class 2 National Insurance altogether for the self-employed, invest £1.3bn over the next five years to help people find jobs, freeze all alcohol duty until August 1st of next year and make a two per cent cut to Employee National Insurance tax from 12 per cent to 10 per cent — which will come as early as January 2024. Get more of City A.M. 👇 🌐 https://www.cityam.com X(formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/CityAM Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cityam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/city_am LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cityam