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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Woodcock

Truss mini-budget blasted as ‘inept madness’ by senior Tory

PA Wire

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s tax giveaway budget has been condemned as “inept madness” by a senior Conservative MP.

Simon Hoare compared the events of the past week to Black Wednesday in 1992, when the Conservative government’s claims to economic competence were blown out of the water by its failed attempt to keep the UK in the European exchange rate mechanism.

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