Suella Braverman leaves job as the Home Secretary after only 43 days in the job
Suella Braverman has either been sacked or quit as Home Secretary Braverman has departed as home secretary, according to a new report. The news would be another huge blow to Prime Minister Liz Truss’s flailing government. The news was first reported by The Guardian, which says ex-Transport Secretary Grant Shapps could be her replacement. Minutes […]
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Journalist calls Jacob Rees-Mogg’s comments ‘b******s’ live on Channel 4
Krishnan Guru-Murthy wasn’t sure whether the language had landed him in hot water or not… A journalist described comments made by Jacob Rees-Mogg as “pretty much b****cks” during an interview on Channel 4 News with Krishnan Guru-Murthy. Rees-Mogg did the media rounds on Wednesday morning as market turmoil continued following Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss’s […]
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Shell boss urges UK government to tax gas and oil companies to help poorest
High prices and market volatility is “damaging to society”, he said The chief executive of Shell has implored the government to start taxing oil and gas companies in order to protect the poorest people in society from soaring energy costs. Speaking at the Energy Intelligence Forum in London, Ben van Beurden said: “One way or […]
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Kwasi Kwarteng blames ‘pressure’ of Queen’s death for botched mini-budget
Kwasi is telling us all to ‘remember the context’. Kwasi Kwarteng has blamed the “pressure” of the Queen’s death for mistakes in the mini-budget which has arguably set the Tory party into an even deeper crisis. The chancellor said: “We had a nation in mourning and then, literally, four days after the funeral we had […]
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Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng bins 45p tax rate in massive U-turn saying, ‘we get it’
‘We get it, and we have listened’ Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has announced a U-turn on the plan to cut the top rate of income tax, conceding “we get it, and we have listened”. At 7.25am on Monday, Kwarteng said in a statement: “From supporting British business to lowering the tax burden for the lowest paid, […]
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Liz Truss to ditch plans to abolish 45p rate of tax for higher earners
The mini-budget announced the biggest tax cuts in 50 years and sent financial markets into chaos Prime Minister Liz Truss is due to ditch plans to abolish the 45p rate of tax for higher earners, media reports suggested on Monday. The BBC said, shortly before 7am, that Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng was due to make a […]
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