![British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, gestures at Britain's Conservative Party's annual conference in Manchester, Britain, October 2, 2023.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/Y2QRXBDX27KCQNK2JRAPPVREXA.jpg?auth=7f0bebdd15a05696299ebc0175c75c9b060508064216bf79ba3fca4b0b473f84&width=414&height=233&smart=true)
Britain’s Treasury chief raises the minimum wage but angers some colleagues by ruling out tax cuts
Hunt also pledged to freeze civil service recruitment to cut costs and toughen the rules on social benefits in an attempt to stem the flow of working-age people out of the workforce, a trend that has accelerated since the coronavirus pandemic.