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Kwarteng accused of reckless mini-budget for the rich as pound plummets

Strategy of sweeping tax cuts gets hostile reception from markets and economic thinktanks, leaving some Tory MPs aghast

The Guardian - UK

Tories can't solve the cost of living crisis - Britain can't afford them anymore

'The only things that are going up under this Government are inflation, interest rates, government borrowing and bankers’ bonuses,' says Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves

Daily Mirror

The Guardian view on the Tory trickle up policies: redistributing to the rich

Editorial: Kwasi Kwarteng thinks Britain needs to give millionaires huge handouts and concrete over the country. He’s wrong

The Guardian - UK

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Pound plunges after new British government releases budget

The markets are treating the U.K. the way they do emerging markets.

Axios

Britain's top 30 obsessions revealed - including the weather, queueing, and tea

A list of the nation's top 30 greatest obsessions has been revealed - including moaning about traffic and bad manners.

Daily Mirror

How will mini-budget announcements affect UK households?

The Government has unveiled a raft of tax cuts as part of plans to drive up growth during the cost-of-living crisis.

The Independent UK

Kwasi Kwarteng’s high stakes bet on growth

FOR a “fiscal event” or even a mini-Budget, there is an extraordinary change of direction identified in the Chancellor’s speech today — enough for a couple of conventional Budgets. He told us this morning, “there are too many barriers to enterprise”. Accordingly, he has set out a dizzying range of…

Evening Standard

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Fred Wright insists Britain’s got talent to produce road cycling world champion

The Bahrain-Victorious rider says the potential is there to follow Sir Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas.

The Independent UK

How Did the Founder of Saudi Arabia Impose Himself as a Political Reality on Two Empires?

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Glasgow tenement included in shortlist for Britain’s most loved private building

An early 20th century tenement in Shawlands has been shortlisted for the award of Britain's most loved private building, after the owners association worked tirelessly to repair the structure.

Glasgow Live

Britain's 'roughest estate' where yobs set fire to homes and rip the heads off live pigeons

Locals live in fear of violence and racial abuse, with some too afraid to leave their homes - even during the day

Wales Online

Rees-Mogg: ‘Britain must get every cubic inch of gas out of North Sea’

Leaked video shows business secretary ‘greenwashing fossil fuels’ and putting ‘ideology before climate’, say critics

The Guardian - UK

Mini-budget: Kwasi Kwarteng slashes income tax in growth gamble

The Chancellor swung his axe at income tax, National Insurance, corporation tax and stamp duty in a historic mini-budget aimed at transforming Britain’s lacklustre growth rate

Evening Standard

Killing Leprechauns: Irish satirist mines British ignorance in comedy podcast

Oliver Callan questions British comics on Irish history and current affairs and finds general response is obliviousness

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Daily Mirror

Pet Club: Britain’s first police Staffie sniffer dog retires after eight years service

This week on the Mirror's Pet Club: PD Stella sniffed out thousands of pounds of stolen money, drugs including heroin, cocaine and ecstasy as well as guns and ammunition while on duty with Gloucestershire Constabulary

The National (Scotland)

Tory tax cuts for wealthy will drive 'broke, broken Britain' into 'economic chaos', critics warn

THE Tories’ emergency mini-budget has been branded a recipe for “economic chaos” as the country faces the likely recession amid warnings there…

The Independent UK

Kwarteng axes higher income tax for top earners and accelerates 1p cut for all

Chancellor claims abolishing 45p rate – already cut from 50p by George Osborne – ‘will make Britain more competitive’

The Guardian - UK

Pound plunges through $1.09 as former US Treasury secretary blasts ‘naive’ UK policies in mini-budget– as it happened

Sterling has tumbled by over three cents to 37-year low, and UK gilt yields are surging, after Kwasi Kwarteng announced huge unfunded tax cuts

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The Guardian - UK

Who wants Liz Truss’s bonfire of net-zero red tape? Not big business, for a start

The Tories were once the party of business. Now all they know how to do is drag Britain back to the 1980s, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Asharq Al-Awsat

Palestinians Slam UK 'Review' of Israel Embassy Location

The Palestinians on Thursday said any move by Britain to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would be "a blatant violation of International law". British Prime Minister Liz Truss, in New York for the UN General Assembly, told her Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid on Wednesday "about…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel PM: World Must Use Force if Iran Builds Nuclear Bomb

The international community should use military force if Iran develops nuclear weapons, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid told the United Nations on Thursday, as he reiterated support for creation of a "peaceful" Palestinian state. Israel has been conducting an intense diplomatic offensive in recent months to try to persuade the…

Manchester Evening News

Inside Greater Manchester's 'Investment Zone' talks - from affordable housing to job 'poaching'

Town hall leaders have flagged a string of concerns about the new low-tax initiative dubbed a 'new era for Britain'

The Guardian - UK

Five charts that will underpin chancellor’s mini-budget

From soaring inflation and gas prices to tax take and national debt, these are the trend lines that frame Kwasi Kwarteng’s calculations

Bangkok Post

Thai Tributes to Queen Elizabeth II

In the wake of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, Thailand has joined in paying tributes to and mourning the world's and Britain's longest-reigning monarch. Here are a few heartfelt highlights.

Daily Mirror

Kwasi Kwarteng's tax cutting 'mini-Budget' to promise 'new era for Britain' - after 12 years of Tory rule

The chancellor will scrap Boris Johnson's hike in national insurance from November 6 despite experts warning it will disproportionately benefit the richest households

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