Mini-budget debacle likely to create tension between Truss and Kwarteng

Singing from the same hymn sheet? Downing Street has insisted there is no row between Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng in the aftermath of the mini-budget that roiled markets. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

They are neighbours in the same small corner of Greenwich, and now live next door in Downing Street – but the alliance between Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng goes back more than a decade to their entry into parliament as new MPs in 2010.

Back then, as part of a new Free Enterprise Group of Tory MPs, the pair were trying to push the coalition government towards a more free-market approach to Conservative politics.