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Miriam Burrell

‘We must stay the course with tax plan,’ Chancellor to say in crunch Tory conference speech

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng attends the Conservative Party Conference with Prime Minister Liz Truss

(Picture: PA)

Kwasi Kwarteng will seek to calm the markets and defend his economic plan in a highly-anticipated speech at the Conservative Party Conference as disquiet simmers among Tory MPs.

The Chancellor’s planned tax cuts have been notably slammed by Tory former Cabinet minister Michael Gove, who claimed that increased borrowing was “not Conservative” and hinted at voting against the plan in the House of Commons in a major blow.

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