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New Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi dangles more tax cuts as Boris Johnson battles to stay in No10



He stressed that the crisis-hit Prime Minister had tasked him with “rebuilding” and “growing” the economy.

“The most important thing is to rebuild the economy post-pandemic, and to get growth going again, and tax cuts,” he told Sky News.

“We are delivering the first tax cut in a decade today, I’m determined to do more.”

He insisted he would not be fiscally reckless and would follow the “evidence” when it comes to economic decisions.

But he said “nothing if off the table” when it comes to tax cuts and other measures to boost the economy.

His comments came after a Bank of England chief warned that Britain’s economic growth will be “flat” over the next year as millions of households are forced to cut back on spending.

Sir Jon Cunliffe, BoE deputy governor for financial stability, also made clear that its Monetary Policy Committee would be prepared to raise interests to tame sky-rocketing inflation.

However, he sought to reassure people across the country that the economic squeeze would not be like that of the 2008/09 financial crisis.

He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “This is a very different type of shock to the financial crisis.

“The financial crisis was followed by a very deep and very long recession.

“What we expect is the cost-of-living squeeze will actually hit people’s spending and that will start to cool the economy.

“We can see signs of the economy is already slowing and we forecast over the next year or so pretty much economic growth will be flat.

“But that’s a very different picture to the picture we saw 2009-2011.

“It’s a picture of a slow economy, where people can’t spend, they have cut back on spending because of the cost-of-living.”



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