The Prime Minister raised a toast to the Chancellor’s tax cut with workers during a visit to a builders warehouse in London.
Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt had tea and biscuits with workers at a Selco Builders Warehouse following the Budget on Wednesday, where the Chancellor confirmed a 2p cut in national insurance for employees and the self-employed.
Mr Hunt said that Mr Luft “probably heard more of it than the people in the House of Commons”, adding “there was so much noise”.
Mr Sunak said: “When you get home, you’ll hear there’s some good news, froze fuel duty, so that’s not going up which is good news and actually for all your customers that are very reliant on their cars or vans they will be happy about that.
“Froze alcohol duties, that’s also good, for when you’re out Friday night.
“So hopefully that will help because we know things haven’t been easy for the last few years.”
One of the workers said “thank you Jeremy”.
Mr Sunak said “we can drink to that, we can drink to the tax cut”.
Before their tea, Mr Sunak and Mr Hunt were shown how paint is mixed in store, and the Prime Minister took off his jacket in preparation as he helped to move the pot of paint around the machines which mix the colour.
They were then shown the colour, which Mr Sunak said was a “good solid blue”, adding “that’s what we like”.
