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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Nicholas Cecil and Rachael Burford

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng refuses to rule out corporation tax U-turn amid mini-budget mayhem

Kwasi Kwarteng refused on Thursday to rule out another humiliating U-turn - this time on corporation tax - and stressed he was not about to quit as Chancellor.

Speaking to reporters at an economic summit in Washington, the Chancellor was asked if he was going to U-turn on further big measures announced in his fiscal statement on September 23, having already climbed down on his plan to axe the 45p top rate of income tax.

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