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Asked whether that was what he and Ms Truss had done, Mr Kwarteng said: “Well I wouldn’t say we ripped the doors off, but it was a very, very high intense time period and we tried to do lots of things in that one statement.”
Former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng tells why Jeremy Hunt 'has done a good job' with the budget.
How much does she blame Kwasi Kwarteng for the mess?
In October last year, the long-time frontbencher was thrust into the key position after his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng resigned from the post.
It comes after the former chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, and former prime minister Liz Truss came under fire after failing to work with the OBR on an assessment ahead of their mini-budget announcement that caused an economic fallout last autumn.
Just ahead of the ludicrously labelled “fiscal event” even Kwasi Kwarteng was warning her: “You have got to slow it all down.”
Source: https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/baroness-wheatcroft-reviews-out-of-the-blue
Kwarteng was sacked and Truss resigned a short time later, brought down not by any “anti-growth coalition” but their own economic incompetence.
Kwasi Kwarteng said his mortgage payments had gone up ‘a great deal’ since the economic turmoil.
Mr Kwarteng had wanted to abolish the top rate of income tax and remove a cap on bankers’ bonuses.
Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/05/liz-truss-blames-establishment-for-not-giving-her-a-chance-18224481/
Mr Kwarteng told the fake company that he would be able to put them in touch with other MPs, and suggested he could arrange a potential meeting with former prime minister Boris Johnson.
Ms Truss was forced out of office last October after the budget of £45 billion of tax cuts outlined by her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng sparked an economic crisis.
The first real cracks in the commercial property market began to emerge in the weeks following the Liz Truss-Kwasi Kwarteng mini-Budget fiasco when a series of large property funds backed by some of the world’s largest asset managers were suddenly gated.
Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/11/04/britain-commercial-property-market-downturn/
The sacking of the Treasury’s then-permanent secretary was seen as a result of his perceived alignment with the “ orthodoxy” Mr Kwarteng was seeking to challenge.