JEREMY Hunt is facing a Tory revolt over bombshell claims that £7 billion of taxpayer’s cash has been wasted on woke projects.
A report by the Conservative Way Forward think-tank, released on Monday, comes just weeks after taxes were hiked to 1940s levels.
Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet at Guildhall
It finds that billions of pounds are being poured down the drain every year on unconscious bias training, quangos and equality and diversity officers.
A staggering 40 Tory MPs have written to the Chancellor demanding he takes urgent action to crack down on bloated public spending.
Axing woke projects will free up billions for tax cuts, they said.
In a blistering letter seen by Trending In The News on Sunday, they say: “In the recent budget, the Government decided to tax the British public at levels not seen since the end of the Second World War, and to spend more public money in 2023 and 2024 than at any point since the mid-1970s.
“We need to be able to reassure our constituents, who are worried about the cost of living crisis, that every penny of taxpayers’ money spent on their behalf provides value for money and is not wasted.”
They say the report – called Defunding Politically Motivated Campaigns – shows the scale of Treasury waste on “politically motivated and divisive activities”.
They added: “We will have a much better chance of cutting taxes or spending more on frontline public services if we end this sort of waste.”
The letter was signed by Tory big beasts including ex leader Iain Duncan Smith and former party chairman Sir Jake Berry.
A Treasury source said they will consider the report. They pointed out that Mr Hunt has already launched an efficiencies review to try to cut public spending.
