How a Conservative budget failed to help women (again)

A single man would gain £346 from tax cuts, compared with £279 for a woman and just £85 for the typical lone mother

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Jeremy Hunt name-checked two formidable women in his speech on Tuesday: Labour’s Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves, both of whom were the butt of lumbering jokes, which only underlined their political potency.

There were no mentions of the millions of women out of the chancellor’s direct eyeline, however, who are often on the frontline when it comes to enduring the stresses of a stagnant economy.