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UK prime minister Liz Truss has sacked her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng after his return from DC [1]
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Date: 2022-10-14
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https://www.ft.com/content/63ac7dab-d8e4-412c-a910-c0013fdf7f3d UK prime minister Liz Truss has sacked her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and shredded her economic strategy in a desperate bid to save her premiership and “reassure the markets of our fiscal discipline”. Truss, in a cursory Downing Street press conference of less than 10 minutes, announced that Jeremy Hunt, former foreign secretary, would become the new chancellor, charged with making the sums add up. Many Tory MPs believe Truss cannot survive the humiliation of the U-turn, in which she conceded that corporation tax would rise from 19 per cent to 25 per cent next April — as planned by ex-chancellor Rishi Sunak, her former rival for the party leadership.
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Conservative support has slumped below 20 per cent in the worst poll yet to hit beleaguered Liz Truss, giving Keir Starmer’s Labour a remarkable 34-point lead.
The survey also found that just 9 per cent of voters – fewer than one in 10 – have a favourable view of the prime minister, against 65 per cent – almost two-thirds – who regard her unfavourably.
Her personal ratings recorded in the poll were lower than reached by either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn at the depths of their periods of unpopularity.
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