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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rupert Jones and Richard Partington

What is the impact of 45p tax U-turn on markets and mortgages?

Bubbles float past office buildings in the City of London
Stock markets and the pound rallied on Monday morning after Kwasi Kwarteng’s U-turn, but remained volatile. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images

Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss have expended a lot of political capital by abandoning their policy to abolish the 45% top rate of income tax after a week of increasing hostility from MPs and economists. But how has Monday morning’s humiliating U-turn gone down with markets, and has it reversed some of the mini-budget’s turbulent impact on home loans, government debt and the pound?

What does it mean for mortgages?

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