The Latest Breaking News from Kwasi Kwarteng

A new series immerses us in Russia’s 90s trauma – and the human cost of economic shock

Adam Curtis’s BBC project, TraumaZone, show us extraordinary events though the eyes of ordinary people, and how ideologues betrayed them, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2022

‘The UK seems to have imploded’: how world’s press sees Truss’s Britain

Post-Brexit schadenfreude in Europe and warnings from US that new PM is ‘making UK look like Argentina’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2022

Trust me, UK's Truss pursues charm offensive at her party conference

British Prime Minister Liz Truss heads to her Conservative Party conference next week with a packed diary of "meet and greets" to try to win over lawmakers angry over an economic plan that triggered market chaos and badly eroded support.

Reuters · Sep 30, 2022

SNP demands Kwasi Kwarteng resigns as Chancellor following reports benefits will be frozen

Ian Blackford claimed that Tory economic policies would leave "millions of families across the UK in deep distress".

Daily Record · Sep 30, 2022

How Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget hit UK economy – in numbers

Reckless ‘fiscal event’ may have damaged Liz Truss’s government beyond repair

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2022

Looming D-Day announced for Truss mini-Budget as OBR reveal forecast date

The PM has been under pressure to make a U-turn on the tax-cutting mini-budget policies announced on Friday

Manchester Evening News · Sep 30, 2022

French government ‘worried about Britain’, Macron’s finance minister says

Bruno Le Maire is the French opposite number to chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng

The Independent UK · Sep 30, 2022

Should Liz Truss sack Kwasi Kwarteng for his mini-budget of economic chaos? Have your say

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, in one of his first measures in office, managed to tank British Sterling and make the costs of everyone's mortgages skyrocket. Should Liz Truss sack her Chancellor?

Daily Mirror · Sep 30, 2022

Alister Jack attacks BBC for 'taking it too far' after saying pound is 'tanking'

ALISTER Jack claimed the pound was not “tanking” but the BBC was simply taking things “too far” in a car crash interview on Friday morning.

The National (Scotland) · Sep 30, 2022

Emily Sheffield: Voters are unlikely to forget Liz Truss’s gamble with Britain’s economy

“Are you ashamed of what you’ve done?” This was just one of many barbed questions the Prime Minster had to face down yesterday in a painful round of regional BBC interviews. This was planned to persuade the country and allay fears. Instead, it was a car crash. Anxiety in the…

Evening Standard · Sep 30, 2022