‘The UK seems to have imploded’: how world’s press sees Truss’s Britain

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget has spooked the markets – and their own MPs. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/AP

The UK is beginning to look jinxed to some foreign observers as they review the wreckage of last week’s mini-budget.

A headline in Spain’s El Español’s reads: “21 days with Liz Truss: the pound falls, the Queen dies and the UK has been weakened more than ever since Brexit.” The newspaper reckons that Boris Johnson’s parting shot of “Hasta la vista, baby” now sounds like a “curse”. It says Truss’s first three weeks in office “could not have been more catastrophic”.