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Amy Gibbons

UK ‘hours’ from potential financial meltdown after mini-budget, Bailey confirms

Governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey (Toby Melville/PA) (Picture: PA Wire)

The UK was just hours from potential total financial meltdown in the wake of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget, the Governor of the Bank of England has confirmed.

Andrew Bailey said the Bank was forced to step in “quickly” and “decisively” to mitigate a “very real threat to financial stability” after markets were spooked by the calamitous £45 billion tax giveaway.

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