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Health and teaching unions aghast at Jeremy Hunt’s new era of Tory austerity

The chancellor sparked alarm among trade union leaders by promising ‘very difficult decisions’ for government budgets

The Guardian - UK

'Tories have damaged Britain - only solution is a change of hands with Labour in power'

Keir Mudie says Liz Truss signed this mini-budget off, of course, so he is not sure what firing the Chancellor actually achieved other than removing the final human shield protecting the woman herself

Daily Mirror

Truss’ desperate bid to save UK premiership lands her in more trouble

Boxed in by market turmoil and a mutinous Conservative Party, British Prime Minister Liz Truss was left with two cards to play: hitting reset on her economic plan, and firing her friend and finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng.

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If Jeremy Hunt is to be Truss’s saviour, he needs more than austerity 2.0

Tax-cut U-turns won’t be enough to balance the books, so the new chancellor will look at cutting public service budgets. But there is an alternative

The Guardian - UK

'Follow in King's footsteps and ask The Repair Shop to fix our broken country'

Later this month we'll get to watch the big reveal of a restored 18th-century bracket clock and a plate made for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee - and we may even see a royal tear or two, says Rachael

Daily Mirror

Bank of England governor warns of further interest rates rise amid mortgage crisis

The governor also revealed that he has met with new chancellor Jeremy Hunt

Manchester Evening News

Mini-budget will likely mean higher interest rates, warns Bank of England governor

Andrew Bailey says UK borrowers can expect to feel impact of Truss government’s tax and spending decisions

The Guardian - UK

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'Liz Truss is running Britain with a glorious chaotic sense of uselessness'

Mark Steel says now that Kwasi Kwarteng has been sacked, every policy Liz Truss said was essential will be reversed - even her press conference explaining the sacking of the Chancellor was useless

Daily Mirror

Miriam Margolyes swears live on air on BBC Radio 4 as she talks about new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt

The Harry Potter star was being interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme on Saturday morning when she swore and the presenters had to apologise

Chronicle Live

Universal Credit warning as DWP told families could lose up to £1,000 a year

The government is due to make an announcement on benefit upratings at the end of the month

Manchester Evening News

Interest rate rises could be higher than expected next month, warns Andrew Bailey

Bank of England Governor says ‘inflationary pressures’ could prompt stronger response than bank had previously thought

Evening Standard

Tobias Ellwood has Tory whip restored after being suspended in July

Chair of Commons defence committee had whip withdrawn for failing to turn up for a confidence vote

The Guardian - UK

As UK's Truss fights for job, new finance minister says she made mistakes

Britain's new finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday some taxes would go up and tough spending decisions were needed, saying Prime Minister Liz Truss had made mistakes as she battles to keep her job just over a month into her term.

Reuters

Tory MP Tobias Ellwood has whip restored

The senior Tory MP had been suspended from the party for missing a confidence vote in the summer.

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Evening Standard

Banker pay unchained: A bonus for the British economy?

City comment: Jeremy Hunt now has the chance to re-examine the disastrous mini-Budget. He should think twice before scrapping the banker bonus cap.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss news – live: Jeremy Hunt says PM went ‘too far, too fast’ on tax cuts

New chancellor said his focus was ‘on growth underpinned by stability’

Wales Online

BBC issues 'many apologies' and tells Miriam Margolyes to leave studio after she says 'f**k you' live on air

Miriam Margolyes revealed what she really wanted to say to the new chancellor Jeremy Hunt, whose seat she had just taken in the BBC Radio 4's Today programme studio

Manchester Evening News

Jeremy Hunt says taxes will rise as he gets 'clean slate' on disastrous mini-budget

'Difficult decisions' will be made in the coming months, according to the new chancellor

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The Guardian - UK

Miriam Margolyes swears live on air about chancellor Jeremy Hunt

Actor, 81, told BBC’s Today programme she wished him luck in his new job but wanted to say ‘Fuck you, bastard’

The Independent UK

New UK Treasury chief: Mistakes were made, tax rises coming

Britain’s new Treasury chief has acknowledged mistakes made by his predecessor and suggested that he may reverse much of Conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss’ tax-cutting plans, in order to bring stability to the country after weeks of economic and political turbulence

Daily Record

Miriam Margolyes swears live on air as she discusses Jeremy Hunt with BBC forced into apology

The BAFTA-winning Harry Potter actress made the explicit remarks on Radio 4’s Today programme

Tribune News Service

Therese Raphael: Liz Truss is still in office, but no longer in power

Kwasi Kwarteng may have cut a large figure, but he proved to be the proverbial bull in a china shop as Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was repeatedly wrong, but never in doubt. His central conceit was that trust — whether from his party, the public or markets —…

The Independent UK

Jeremy Hunt: Who is new chancellor and former health secretary?

The new chancellor signalled he will have a ‘clean slate’ when it comes to the mini-Budget

The National (Scotland)

Tax rises and spending cuts with ‘difficult’ decisions ahead, says Chancellor

JEREMY Hunt signalled on Saturday his plan to up-end the Prime Minister’s entire economic strategy, in an extraordinary rebuke of the pledges…

Bangkok Post

British PM fights for her job

LONDON: Britain’s new finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday some taxes would go up and tough spending decisions were needed, signalling further reversals from Prime Minister Liz Truss as she battles to keep her job just over a month into her term.

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