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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Robin McKie and Yasmeen Louis

From ‘best’ budget to a dead parrot: how Tory press turned against Liz Truss

Liz Truss’s press conference on Friday
Liz Truss’s press conference on Friday; a Telegraph columnist maintains she and Kwarteng were just ‘unlucky’. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

“This was the best budget I have ever heard a chancellor deliver, by a massive margin,” wrote Allister Heath on the front page of the Daily Telegraph the day after Kwasi Kwarteng had outlined his plans for Britain’s fiscal future on 23 September.

“The tax cuts were so huge and bold, the language so extraordinary, that at times I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming.”

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