Thirty-eight days. That’s all it took before Liz Truss’ “ideological soulmate” and Britain’s first black Chancellor was swiftly sacked from the job after what’s been widely regarded as a “disastrous” mini-budget last month — not the best look for a man who promised to rescue the economy and “[make] sh*t happen”, or so his trusty mantra supposedly goes.
But perhaps it was exactly Kwarteng’s “bold”, powerhouse approach to “making sh*t happen” that ended up being his downfall. The Harvard-educated former University Challenge contestant, 47, was recently forced to make a “humiliating” U-turn on his mini-budget plan to scrap the top rate of income tax after “listen[ing]” to public concern.
