OPINION - Jeremy Hunt cuts taxes – but they're still going up

There is only one activity less productive than watching the Autumn Statement, and that is watching the prime minister's questions that precedes it. Every question even tangentially related to tax and spend receives the rote reply: "I would not want to pre-empt my honourable friend the chancellor". Perish the thought.

Rather than sitting through , you'd have been better off reading the and the Office for Budget Responsibility's (OBR) .  Think of them as the highly acclaimed