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    Government denies responsibility for market turmoil as pound slumps

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email The government has attempted to deny responsibility for Britain’s financial woes, saying that all major economies are suffering as a result of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. Liz Truss and […] More

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    What would happen if the IMF bailed out Britain?

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email The International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a rare warning to a G7 economy on Tuesday when it called on Liz Truss’s new administration to “re-evaluate” Kwasi Kwarteng’s tax-slashing, heavy-borrowing “mini-Budget”. […] More

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    Economic storm tests UK's new leader, alarms Conservatives

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email New British Prime Minister Liz Truss came under growing pressure Wednesday from opponents — and inside her Conservative Party — to reverse announced tax cuts that are fueling a financial […] More

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    Bank of England announces emergency action to try to calm markets

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email The Bank of England has announced that it will intervene in an attempt to calm markets after they were spooked by last week’s mini-Budget by the Liz Truss government. The […] More

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    What are government bonds and how will Bank of England use them to stabilise markets?

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email The Bank of England (BoE) has announced it is making an emergency intervention to calm currency markets still reacting adversely to the tax-slashing “mini-Budget” chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng unveiled on Friday. […] More

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    What Rishi Sunak predicted about Liz Truss’s ‘fairytale’ economic plans

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Rishi Sunak is reported to be avoiding Conservative party conference this year, so that Liz Truss can “own” the unfolding economic chaos. The former chancellor and leadership candidate can certainly […] More