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Hunt replaces Kwarteng as Liz Truss plans humiliating U-turn

U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss fired Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng and replaced him with former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt as she prepared to make a humiliating U-turn on parts of her economic plan.

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Chris Philp: Liz Truss demotes Kwasi Kwarteng’s deputy in Treasury clear-out

Chief secretary to the Treasury moved to Cabinet Office role

The Independent UK

Jeremy Hunt named as new chancellor by Liz Truss

Tory moderate replaces Kwasi Kwarteng in bid to shore up support from MPs

The Independent UK

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Why Liz Truss' pledge not to cut public spending is not all that it seems

Critics believe the Prime Minister has three options: U-turn and cut spending, U-turn on tax cuts, or keep going and drive the economy off a cliff. Some of the answers may lie in the detail

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss in fresh peril as senior Tory MPs round on her over economy

PM accused of ‘trashing’ Conservative values and a PMQs performance that was ‘just appalling’

The Guardian - UK

Labour glee as Librium Liz twists and U-turns her way through PMQs

PM leaves chamber to opposition cries of ‘more’ but barely a squeak from her own benches

The Guardian - UK

Top Tory warns tax cuts U-turn WILL happen as 'pyromaniac' government refuse to back down

Mel Stride, who chairs the influential Treasury Select Committee, says he is among those who expects Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will have to row back further when he announces full financial plans

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Watch MPs jeer as Liz Truss claims General Election is 'last thing we need'

LIZ Truss was jeered in the Commons after she told MPs that a General Election was the “last thing we need”.

The National (Scotland)

‘Not a single penny less’ to NHS despite tax hike reversal, says minister

The Treasury’s Chris Philp said the Government would offer further details on its spending plans on October 31.

The Independent UK

Dead-eyed AI robot Ai-Da sets the bar high for Truss and Kwarteng

A robot addressing a Lords committee evinced a clarity and personality all too lacking at the top of the Tory party

The Guardian - UK

Angela Rayner demands inquiries into string of ethics issues from Liz Truss’s first month in No 10

Exclusive: Prime minister allowing sleaze to ‘fester’ at heart of government, Labour claims

The Independent UK

Fears that families claiming Universal Credit from DWP face losing £1000

UK's poorest households with children stand to get far less than expected next year if Government changes the way increases are worked out

Chronicle Live

Universal Credit claimants with families could lose £1,000 if Government waters down benefit

People on Universal Credit could get far less than expected next year if the Government changes the way that normal increases are worked out - and several top Tories hint that might happen

Daily Mirror

Tory minister swore at me after Newsnight interview, claims Mick Lynch

RMT boss Mick Lynch has claimed he had a furious row with Tory minister Chris Philp off-camera after their testy exchange on the BBC this summer.

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The Guardian - UK

Kamikwasi Kwarteng delivers his excruciating career suicide note

Tactless jokes and half-arsed platitudes made up chancellor’s vapid Tory conference speech

Wales Online

Martin Lewis forces the government to remove ‘nonsense’ claim about new tax savings

The post was later taken down

The Guardian - UK

Chris Philp said UC claimants should be forced to ‘work for dole’

Treasury minister in charge of welfare changes made comments in 2013

Manchester Evening News

Martin Lewis slams government's 'nonsense' first-time buyer advice on ITV Good Morning Britain as he sets record straight

The Money Saving Expert founder has asked for the Treasury's statement to be taken down

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Martin Lewis hits out at ‘irresponsible’ messaging over first-time buyer savings

The consumer champion said Treasury messaging about potential tax savings for first-time buyers appears ‘fundamentally irresponsible’.

The Independent UK

Martin Lewis brands government’s stamp duty savings claim ‘irresponsible nonsense’

Money Saving Expert founder criticises Treasury for giving public ‘false hope’ and implying a £30k salary could buy £500k home

Wales Online

The Treasury deletes tweet after Martin Lewis hit out at 'irresponsible' first-time buyer messaging

The awkward exchange between the consumer champion and Chief Secretary to the Treasury MP Chris Philp, led to the Tory MP saying he would 'take a look' at the 'anomaly between the salary and house value'. The 'misleading' tweet has now been deleted.

The Independent UK

Treasury chief secretary barred from housing decisions because of property firm

Chris Philp retains big stake in development loans group – despite promotion to be Kwasi Kwarteng’s deputy

The Independent UK

Martin Lewis hits out at ‘irresponsible’ messaging over first-time buyer savings - OLD

The consumer champion said Treasury messaging about potential mini-budget savings for first-time buyers appears ‘fundamentally irresponsible’.

The Guardian - UK

Unions brand bid to exempt firms with up 500 staff from new rules ‘reckless’

Government says change would apply to all new regulations and it would look to raise in threshold in future

The Independent UK

Government may consider benefits cut to help fund tax breaks for rich, economists warn

Huge ‘unforced error’ set to push Britain back to George Osborne-era cuts, says think tank

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