As the UK approaches Budget week, significant attention is being paid to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's financial plans and their potential impact. Dame Priti Patel has publicly urged Hunt to remove the proposed 'tourism tax' from the upcoming Budget, highlighting concerns within the Conservative Party regarding its implications. Meanwhile, criticism from the opposition is mounting, with Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Liz Kendall, expressing skepticism that nothing Hunt announces "will either appease his divided party or in fact get the country back on the right track" with his budgetary decisions. The period is also marked by an expected increase in government PR efforts, as noted by observers, to promote the Chancellor's image and policies through various media outlets.
Dame Priti Patel asks Chancellor to ‘scrap tourism tax’ in upcoming Budget https://t.co/I5HfbYcKp7
🔴 Dame Priti Patel has demanded Jeremy Hunt scrap the “tourism tax” in this week’s Budget https://t.co/evwn1WcsWY
It’s Budget week so stand by for lots of government issued PR pictures of the Chancellor in Britain’s national newspapers.
✒️'Britain can boom. That’s the story Jeremy Hunt must tell,' writes Nick Timothy https://t.co/VSewiOj4mz
Nothing Jeremy Hunt announces in the budget "will either appease his divided party or in fact get the country back on the right track". Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Liz Kendall @LBCNews | @azizlisa