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    IMF urges Kwarteng and Truss to rethink tax cuts in rare intervention

    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 has hit out at Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s tax cuts for the rich, warning that “large and untargeted fiscal packages” would probably deepen inequality in […] More

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    Tory MPs tell chancellor Kwarteng to act over mini-Budget ‘disaster’

    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 Kwasi Kwarteng is facing demands from his own party to act within days amid fears millions will face a steep hike in mortgage rates – with one senior Conservative MP […] More

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    Liz Truss bad for Britain on world stage, majority of voters say

    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 Liz Truss does not have what it takes to best represent British interests when dealing with senior international leaders, according to more than half the people who have taken part […] More

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    Labour MP apologises for calling Kwasi Kwarteng ‘superficially’ Black after suspension

    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 MP suspended by Labour for calling Kwasi Kwarteng “superficially” Black has apologised to the chancellor. Rupa Huq offered “sincere and heartfelt apologies” for what she called her “ill-judged” comments, […] More

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    David Lammy attacks ‘twisted lies’ of Empire that turned millions into slaves

    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 David Lammy has attacked the “twisted lies” of Empire that turned millions into slaves, in one of the fiercest condemnations by a senior British politician. The shadow foreign secretary linked […] More

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    What are supply-side reforms?

    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 Britain’s already-embattled new chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will announce a package of supply-side reforms in October and November as part of a “medium-term fiscal plan”, the Treasury has said. Mr Kwarteng […] More