Kwasi Kwarteng calls Liz Truss ‘kind of Trumpian’ over firing by tweet

Kwasi Kwarteng learned of his dismissal by Liz Truss from a journalist’s social media post. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images

Kwasi Kwarteng, the chancellor of the exchequer for 43 of Liz Truss’s 49 days as British prime minister, has said Truss “essentially” sacked him “on Twitter”, a dismissal he called “kind of Trumpian” in its swiftness and brutality as Britain fell into crisis.

Kwarteng said: “One of the things that I feel bad about, among other things, was that she capitulated very quickly [to pressure to sack him]. So I came back and I was sacked, essentially on Twitter. So, kind of Trumpian.”