Jeremy Hunt has promised to lower taxes in the future as he launched a major review on how to make the public sector more productive.

The Chancellor said on Monday that if state organisations were as efficient as the private sector, it would help the country save money and put it on a “sustainable path to lower taxes”.

The comments came after Boris Johnson’s surprise resignation from Parliament on Friday night, when he accused Rishi Sunak of diverting from the path of conservatism.

‌In his 1,000-word statement, the former prime minister demanded that Mr Sunak “cut business and personal taxes rather than endlessly putting them up”.

On Monday, he accused the Prime Minister of “talking rubbish” in the row over his resignation honours list.