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The Latest Breaking News from Jeremy Hunt

Truss premiership ‘hanging by thread’ after Kwarteng sacking and latest U-turn

PM’s move to replace chancellor and commit to raising corporation tax fails to placate markets or Tory MPs

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss fails to calm markets despite sacking Kwasi Kwarteng

Sterling fell, FTSE 100 lost its gains and bond yields rose after PM’s press conference failed to announce new direction

The Guardian - UK

Truss could be gone ‘within days or weeks’, say Tory MPs after PM ditches chancellor

Expectation that new chancellor Jeremy Hunt will rewrite Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget

The Independent UK

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The Guardian view on the Conservative party: better off out

Editorial: Liz Truss’s project is finished and her MPs know it. The party needs new ideas and time to rebuild in opposition

The Guardian - UK

Demonstrators block Downing Street gates in protest at PM’s climate approach

Crowds of Extinction Rebellion protesters arrived in Whitehall on Friday, waving flags, setting off flares, chanting and banging drums.

The Independent UK

Kamikwasi takes Librium Liz’s offer to consciously uncouple from train wreck

Decision to sack chancellor for bonkers mini-budget to restore her credibility was futile. PM and Tories are a laughing stock

The Guardian - UK

Can Liz Truss survive? Tory dismay after day of chaos and press conference horror show

The crisis-hit Prime Minister is battling to regain control but mutinous Tories are openly plotting to oust their second leader in a matter of months

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'Rearranging chairs on a sinking ship' - North East MPs call on Truss to go after Kwarteng sacked as Chancellor

The Prime Minister insisted she would not resign after removing her Chancellor on Friday

Chronicle Live

Odds for Liz Truss to leave No 10 before the end of the year slashed

The future of Ms Truss’s leadership appears precarious - and the bookies agree

The Independent UK

Truss dumps UK corporation tax freeze plan after firing ally

Liz Truss scrapped her plan to freeze corporation tax next year in another dramatic U-turn, hours after she fired her ally Kwasi Kwarteng and replaced him with Jeremy Hunt as UK Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Tribune News Service

From leadership flop to chancellor: the surprising return of Jeremy Hunt

Analysis: Ex-foreign secretary once seen as yesterday’s man is now in best position to influence prime minister

The Guardian - UK

Truss sacrifices Kwarteng to save her premiership as she ditches tax pledge

The Prime Minister has appointed Jeremy Hunt as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The Independent UK

Jeremy Hunt brought in from the cold to be UK's new finance minister

Jeremy Hunt was named Britain's new finance minister on Friday, the latest senior ministerial role for the self-proclaimed entrepreneur regarded by many in his Conservative Party as a safe pair of hands but whose days in top jobs had seemed over.

Reuters

Jeremy Hunt's 'secret weapon' wife shares unusual pet name for new Chancellor

Jeremy Hunt, the new chancellor for Liz Truss, was given a pet name by his Chinese-born wife, Lucia, who said the moniker came from her grandmother when they went to China for their wedding

Daily Mirror

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Birmingham Post

Profile on Jeremy Hunt: The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer who will do 'whatever it takes'

The former health secretary and Tory leadership contender replaces Kwasi Kwarteng

Evening Standard

Rare family appearance and a TikTok glow-up — Jeremy Hunt’s first Budget

The Chancellor has already lasted longer in the job than his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng – so does his first Budget fit the serious, “steady” reputation he’s become known for? Katie Strick reports

Evening Standard

Kwasi Kwarteng out, Jeremy Hunt in, Liz Truss clings grimly on

A press conference that could have been an email. Dressed in funereal black, Liz Truss stood at the podium for roughly 494 seconds, each more excruciating than the last. She made a brief statement before taking all of four questions. What did we learn?

The Independent UK

Liz Truss’s history of U-turns after series of reversals as prime minister - OLD

PM is no stranger to about-turns and, less than two months into her premiership, they just keep coming

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Evening Standard

Pound falls after Liz Truss walks out of press conference after just 8 mins 21 secs

Markets, which had been performing well most of the day, appeared far from persuaded by the PM’s speech

Manchester Evening News

Liz Truss says she will NOT resign as Prime Minister as she announces U-turn following sacking of Kwasi Kwarteng

The Prime Minister announced a major new u-turn today after replacing her former Chancellor

The Independent UK

Jeremy Hunt becomes Chancellor with wealth of experience in Cabinet roles

Mr Hunt, who has twice run unsuccessfully to become Tory leader, has been labelled ‘chief executive’ to Liz Truss’s ‘chair’.

Daily Record

Nicola Sturgeon demands Liz Truss resigns as Prime Minister to restore 'economic credibility' to the UK

The First Minister said the "only decent thing" for Tory MPs to do was force Truss out and call a general election.

Evening Standard

What is Jeremy Hunt’s economic record and what could he look to do as Chancellor?

The former health secretary will take over a Treasury in crisis

Evening Standard

Liz Truss ‘hanging by a thread’ as PM, says Lord Hague, after corporation tax U-turn and axing of chancellor

Prime Minister insists she will stay on as leader as she fights for survival of premiership

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss to raise corporation tax in another humiliating U-turn

PM makes second climbdown and sacks chancellor after package of unfunded tax cuts sent the pound tumbling

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