Property News · March 30, 2024

‘From another galaxy’: Hunt makes few friends in Surrey town with £100k remarks


In Godalming, chancellor’s words chime with concerns about housing but fuel perception of Tories being out of touch“I felt like I must be from another galaxy when I heard it,” Merve Topaloğlu says of the chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s suggestion that collecting £100,000 a year is “not a huge salary”.“I can’t imagine how anyone could say £100,000 is not a huge amount,” adds the 34-year-old former Turkish reporter, who runs the Journalist, a cafe on Godalming’s High Street right in the heart of Hunt’s Surrey constituency. “The annual profit from my whole cafe isn’t close to £100,000.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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