It turns out the markets were king all along! Today, Jeremy Hunt has tried to demonstrate the government takes the markets, or just good financial management, seriously by reversing a lot of measures announced less than a month ago.

At the beginning of the week, we welcomed new King Charles III. At the end of the week we're asked to welcome another King. Cash in people's and businesses' hands is clearly the new King!

Apart from increasing their salaries, what affordable initiatives can you take to help alleviate your employees' cost of living increases?

Today the Chancellor was forced to doing something about the increases in cost of living. Hence, the fuel duty cuts, employee and self employed threshold national insurance increases but not too much else.

If people are still not feeling spring-like, the promise of a 1% cut in the income tax rate from April 2024.

Dig in a bit further and you decide: