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Liz Truss To Step Down As UK PM After Chaotic Tenure, Becomes Shortest-Serving UK Leader
20.10.2022 - 15:39 / deadline.com
Liz Truss is out as UK Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party following weeks of political chaos in Westminster.
Truss and her beleaguered government have faced severe pressure from opposition parties as well as her colleagues since the publication of a ‘mini-budget’ by former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in September, which resulted in the British pound falling to an all-time low against the dollar.
Under the plans, which Kwarteng described as a “new era” for the UK economy, a planned rise in corporation taxes was scrapped. Income tax and stamp duty on home purchases were also cut, and the top rate of income tax of 45% for people earning over £150,000 a year was binned.
Kwarteng was sacked following the fallout over the budget. In his resignation letter, Kwarteng, who was one of Truss’s most loyal allies, wrote: “You have asked me to stand aside as your Chancellor. I have accepted.”
Kwarteng was replaced by former health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who repealed almost the economic plans Truss and Kwarteng had outlined in the budget.
The mayhem continued on Oct 19, just five days after Kwarteng’s exit, when Truss’s home secretary Suella Braverman announced that she was resigning. Braverman said she was stepping down due to the misuse of her personal email, although both Conservative insiders and pundits have suggested that she was forced out by Truss and her new chancellor Hunt.
In a scathing resignation letter, Braverman appeared to make reference to Truss. She wrote: “Pretending we haven’t made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can’t see that we have made them, and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious politics. I have made a mistake; I accept responsibility; I resign.”
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