The Latest Breaking News from Kwasi Kwarteng

'It has taken less than 30 days for the Prime Minister to achieve the triple dishonour of being incompetent, uncaring and weak,' writes the Mirror's Jason Beattie

Quarter of all benefits from £43bn tax giveaway go to 1.5m wealthiest households

In a blistering attack Gareth Quarry said the government had turned the UK into a "laughing stock" and accused Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng of embarking on a "maverick" journey

Think tank experts said the Government’s mini-budget plans will still leave the UK’s public finances on an unsustainable path.

The U-turn came, and it felt all but inevitable. This morning, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announced that the proposed 45p tax cut — one of the centrepieces of his mini-Budget — was to be reversed.

This morning Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng refused to rule out a return to Tory austerity after a humiliating tax U-turn - but in July Liz Truss unequivocally told The Mirror that her plans would not involve slashing services

The former Work and Pensions Secretary joined the chorus against Liz Truss warning 'it cannot be that the books are balanced on the back of benefits. That is not right at all'

It comes as the Government U-turned on plans to cut the top rate of income tax for the highest earners.

One of the axioms of communication is that nobody ever had a communication problem who didn’t have a real problem. Liz Truss and her diminishing band of supporters have been trying to argue that her political problems are really just flaws in presentation but they are kidding themselves. The mood…