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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

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.

Evening Standard

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’

The Independent UK

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UK's shortest serving prime ministers ranked as Liz Truss in danger of topping them all

The current holder of the dubious honour is George Canning, who was in office for just 119 days before dying of tuberculosis - but Truss has a long way to go to pass him

Daily Mirror

Humiliated Kwasi Kwarteng was flying 36,000ft over Atlantic when Liz Truss sacked him

The humiliated former Chancellor had been in Washington DC when he was ordered back to the UK, but he'd already been given the boot before his plane landed - not that he knew that

Daily Mirror

Liz Truss ‘clinging to power’ amid ‘grotesque chaos’ of Kwarteng sacking, Starmer says

Labour leader says to expect ‘laughable excuses’ from ailing PM

The Independent UK

Tory prime ministers have ‘collectively got us into this mess’, says Ian Blackford

THE SNP’s Westminster leader Ian Blackford has said Tory prime ministers since 2010 have “collectively got us into this mess”, after…

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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

Manchester Evening News

Tory prime ministers have ‘collectively got us into this mess’ – Blackford

Liz Truss should not be in office ‘one day longer’, the SNP’s Westminster leader has said.

The Independent 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 Guardian - 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

The Independent UK

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

Daily Record

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 —…

Tribune News Service

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

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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.

The National (Scotland)

SNP accuse Liz Truss of misleading Parliament over spending cuts

THE SNP have accused Liz Truss of misleading Parliament after the Prime Minister backtracked on her commitment to ruling out any cuts to public…

Al Jazeera

New UK chancellor admits ‘mistakes’, warns of tax hikes

Jeremy Hunt warns of tax hikes, saying ‘very difficult decisions ahead’, as Prime Minister Liz Truss faces a backlash.

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The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt says difficult decisions ahead after Truss ‘mistakes’

New chancellor vows to be ‘completely honest with country’ amid rumours PM has only weeks left in role

Liverpool Echo

Miriam Margolyes a 'national treasure' after Jeremy Hunt 'f*** you' on BBC radio

The actress shared her x-rated thoughts on new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt

Asharq Al-Awsat

New UK Finance Minister Warns Some Taxes Will Rise in Sign of New U-turn

Britain's new finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday that some taxes will have to go up, signaling another abrupt policy U-turn by Prime Minister Liz Truss who is battling to save her leadership just over a month into her term. In an attempt to appease financial markets that have…

The Independent UK

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

Evening Standard

Jeremy Hunt: Kwarteng made ‘two mistakes’ but PM’s growth plan the right one

Jeremy Hunt rebuked the ‘mistakes’ of the Liz Truss administration in his first interview since taking the job

The Guardian - UK

‘It feels like game over’: Truss struggles for authority as Tories plot her demise

Her MPs know that just as Boris Johnson shredded the image of Conservative integrity, she has done it for economic competence

The Independent UK

Miriam Margoyles says ‘f*** you’ live on Radio 4’s Today programme as Jeremy Hunt arrives for interview

‘Oh no no no you mustn’t say that. We’ll have to have you out of the studio now,’ said presenter Justin Webb

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