Kwasi Kwarteng’s team today denied he boasted “who cares” if the pound crashed on the night of the 2016 Brexit vote.
The damaging claims resurfaced as the new Chancellor went to ground over market turmoil in the wake of his mini-Budget, with no statement planned yesterday or today.
According to the Evening Standard diary column at the time, he was spotted outside the Groucho private members’ club in Soho saying: “Who cares if sterling crashes? It will come back up again.”
