Rishi Sunak took aim at Liz Truss during his first address to the nation as prime minister saying "mistakes were made" while she was in office.
16.10.2022 - 17:05 / foxnews.com
U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss' push to cut taxes for her country's highest earners was a "mistake," President Biden stated Saturday. Truss was forced to scrap large portions of her tax plan last week amid market turmoil and disintegrating public confidence.
White House officials had hitherto declined to comment on Truss' policies, but Biden broke his silence while eating ice cream with reporters in Oregon. "I was not the only one that thought it was a mistake," Biden said. "I think the idea of cutting taxes on the super-wealthy at a time when — anyway, I disagreed with the policy, but that’s up to Great Britain to make that judgment, not me." Truss had initially pushed to eliminate the U.K.'s top tax bracket, effectively cutting taxes for citizens making more than $168,000 per year.
While she scrapped that plan in early October, it did little to stabilize markets. King Charles III greets Prime Minister Liz Truss in the 1844 Room at Buckingham Palace ahead of other dignitaries arriving to Westminster Hall on Sunday. (Kirsty O'Connor - WPA Pool) She was ultimately pushed to fire her Treasury chief and longtime friend, Kwasi Kwarteng, last week. She also walked back a promise to cancel an increase in taxes on corporations.
The British' Pound's value plummeted to near-parity with the U.S. dollar when Kwarteng first announced Truss's tax cut plan in late September.Truss' walk-backs have succeeded in increasing the Pound's value from $1.03 to $1.12. US President Joe Biden stops for ice cream at Baskin Robbins in Portland, Oregon, October 15, 2022. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) Biden argued the U.S.
Rishi Sunak took aim at Liz Truss during his first address to the nation as prime minister saying "mistakes were made" while she was in office.
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British Prime Minister Liz Truss will move to reshape her government’s economic policy after firing Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng and dropping key parts of her economic plan in response to market panic caused by the proposed "mini-budget." "After the fallout from the mini-budget, the Prime Minister needed to take drastic action to calm the markets and save her job," Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital. "Sacking the architect of the policy, while brutal, was the most logical way to restore confidence and give her some breathing space to regroup politically." "Once [Truss] reached that conclusion it was only a matter of time before she acted on it, as had she not, it would now be her head on the platter rather than his," Mendoza added. The British pound dropped sharply after the government announced Kwarteng’s "mini-budget," a series of cuts to taxes intended to spur growth and fight record inflation.The program proved contentious, and Kwarteng did not explain how the government planned to fund the cuts and offset the costs. "We need a new approach for a new era, focused on growth," Kwarteng told lawmakers in the House of Commons when he introduced the plan, which he argued would provide short-term help for homes and businesses in the face of spiking energy costs while trying to increase tax revenues in the coming years. FILE - Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng arrives in Downing Street in London, on Sept.
Prime Minister Liz Truss is to hold a press conference later on Friday, Downing Street has said.
Kwasi Kwarteng has cut his trip to the US short to fly home for 'crunch talks' with Liz Truss amid the expectation of another major mini-budget U-turn.
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