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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jamie Grierson

Three weeks of chaos that cost more than Kwarteng’s job – in numbers

Kwasi Kwarteng in Downing Street
Kwasi Kwarteng in Downing Street on Friday. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters

It is three weeks since the now former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng delivered his not-a-budget budget, a package of £45bn of unfunded tax cuts.

To say the so-called growth plan spooked investors in the financial markets would be an understatement; the response was a damning indictment of economic policies that were at the heart of Liz Truss’s pitch to be Conservative leader and prime minister.

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