UK Chancellor announces budget with focus on childcare and job creation
The UK Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has announced a budget with a focus on job creation and childcare. The budget includes plans to offer life coaches to the long-term sick to help with mental health, debt and other problems, and to offer more funding for childcare, particularly for those on Universal Credit. The government is also considering offering weight-loss drugs to millions of people to help combat obesity and get benefit claimants back to work. The Labour party has criticised the stalling economy under the Tory government and proposed a green prosperity plan and a national wealth fund to support 450,000 new jobs over the next decade.