In an unconfirmed report, The Mail on Sunday cited unnamed security sources as saying that Truss’s personal mobile phone had been hacked ‘by agents suspected of working for the Kremlin’. Source link
Read More »New UK finance minister Hunt tears up PM Truss’ agenda, warns of tax hikes
In crisis talks on Sunday at the prime minister’s country retreat, Hunt and Truss were set to thrash out a new budget plan that he is due to deliver on October 31. Source link
Read More »New UK finance minister warns of higher taxes in latest policy U-turn by PM
New Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt acknowledged mistakes made by his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng and warned that public spending budgets would likely be squeezed further. Source link
Read More »More U-turns? Speculation mounts about UK’s Truss and Kwarteng
Britain’s beleaguered finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng cut short his trip to Washington amid reports Prime Minister Liz Truss is considering reversing more of her government’s controversial ‘mini-budget’. Source link
Read More »Petition for immediate UK election passes 400,000 signatures
“A change in the leader of the governing party does not trigger a general election,” the government said in a September 20 response to the petition. Prime Minister Liz Truss tried to reassure her party and the public on Sunday by saying she should have done more to “lay the …
Read More »After UK market rout, what now for chancellor just weeks into job?
Kwasi Kwarteng has been finance minister for less than a month but is already in the firing line as Britain’s economy teeters on the brink following his first policy announcement. Source link
Read More »New PM Liz Truss’ cabinet is Britain’s first without white man in top jobs
Kwasi Kwarteng and James Cleverly have been appointed the UK’s first black finance and foreign ministers; Suella Braverman, whose parents hail from Kenya and Mauritius, is home secretary. Source link
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