Events moved at pace in Westminster on Friday as Kwasi Kwarteng was sacked as chancellor and Jeremy Hunt swiftly announced as his replacement by prime minister Liz Truss, who then announced another U-turn in her mini-Budget during a disastrous eight-minute press conference at Downing Street in which she only answered four questions.
While Mr Hunt’s appointment was welcomed by some Tory MPs as “an experienced pair of hands”, some questioned why Mr Kwarteng was the one who had to go when he had been pursuing economic policies Ms Truss herself had loudly advocated during her leadership campaign throughout July and August.
