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  • Liz Truss breaks silence to blame media and ‘leftward’ shift for £45bn mini budget failure 

    liz truss

    Liz Truss has broken her silence for the first time since being booted out from Number 10 to hit back at critics of her tax cutting, pro-growth economic agenda. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph today, Truss, 47, said she was never given a “realistic chance” to implement sweeping tax cuts designed to unshackle businesses and [...]

  • Hunt confirms full fat budget and OBR forecast on 15 March 2023

    uk economy

    The government will deliver a full fat budget on 15 March next year, chancellor Jeremy Hunt confirmed today. The announcement will be accompanied by an assessment of the impact of the government’s tax and spending plans on the public finances by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). Last month, Hunt delivered what was in effect [...]

  • ‘Carried away’: Kwasi Kwarteng admits Truss government ‘blew it’ over mini-budget

    WE BLEW IT

    Former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has admitted that Liz Truss’s government “blew it” when it came to the economic reforms proposed in the mini-budget.  “People got carried away, myself included,” he told the Financial Times. “There was a brief moment and the people in charge, myself included, blew it.” Kwarteng was ousted from government after he [...]

  • Optimism abounds in OBR forecasts, but just how feasible are they?

    November 28, 2022

    When former Tory chancellor George Osborne created the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) in 2010, he was unlikely to have envisioned it would become the source of financial market turmoil. But, that upheaval was not the budget watchdog’s fault. Instead, it was former prime minister Liz Truss and ex-Number 11 incumbent Kwasi Kwarteng’s disdain toward [...]

  • Kwarteng breaks silence: I told Truss to ‘slow down’ or last a few weeks – she quit six days later

    November 11, 2022

    Kwasi Kwarteng has broken his silence on Liz Truss’ 42-day tenure as prime minister, saying he warned her to “slow down” and predicted her downfall just a few days later. In his first interview since being sacked on 14 October, after just 38 days in charge of the pursestrings, he said the PM’s problem was [...]

  • Truss and Kwarteng did not brief BoE on mini-budget, dep governor Cunliffe says

    October 19, 2022

    Liz Truss or former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng did not tell the Bank of England of their plans to slash taxes £45bn in last month’s botched mini-budget, one of the central bank’s executives said today. Sir Jon Cunliffe, the Bank’s deputy governor of financial stability, told the treasury select committee today the government did not brief [...]

  • Hunt mini-budget overhaul right for now but investment relief needed, Thatcherites urge

    October 19, 2022

    New chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s decision to junk pretty much all of prime minister Liz Truss’s botched mini-budget has damaged the UK’s tax competitiveness, a new report out today says. Britain has dropped to 33rd out of the 38 nations part of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as a result of Hunt’s tax [...]

  • UK borrowing costs fall below US, Italian and Greek equivalents after Hunt mini-budget reversal

    October 18, 2022

    UK borrowing costs have dropped below their European and transatlantic counterparts after new chancellor Jeremy Hunt tore up prime minister Liz Truss’s tax cutting mini-budget. Since Truss and her former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng decided to launch £45bn of unfunded tax cuts in a bid to boost economic growth, gilt yields have shot higher. Rates on [...]

  • Hunt to make statement on fiscal plan TODAY in bid to calm markets

    October 17, 2022

    Jeremy Hunt will make an announcement today in Parliament about the government’s so-called  Medium-Term Fiscal Plan. The chancellor’s statement is a bid to calm the markets, bringing forward the details of the now much-derided mini-budget, outlined by his predecessor.  Hunt will issue his plans later today and also speak in the House of Commons this afternoon. [...]

  • Truss and Kwarteng were ‘gamblers in a casino’ with UK economy, says Labour

    October 15, 2022

    Prime minister Liz Truss and former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng “behaved like two gamblers in a casino” over the UK economy, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has said today.   Kwarteng was yesterday ousted by the new prime minister, making him the second shortest-running chancellor in the UK’s history. Succeeding Kwarteng is Jeremy Hunt, who this morning [...]

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