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Nicholas Cecil

Labour urges investigation into ‘leak’ of mini-Budget after hedge funds shorted the Pound

Britain’s City regulator was urged on Monday by Labour to investigate whether leaks of the mini-Budget allowed hedge fund managers to make huge profits by shorting the Pound.

Shadow City minister Tulip Siddiq called for the probe by the Financial Conduct Authority amid reports that some hedge fund bosses had made “small fortunes” by betting that Sterling would fall after Chancellor’s Kwasi Kwarteng’s radical fiscal statement on Friday.

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