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Kwasi Kwarteng. Akwasi Addo Alfred Kwarteng (born 26 May 1975) [ 3][ 4] is a British politician who served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 6 September to 14 October 2022 under Liz Truss and the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 2021 to 2022 under Boris Johnson.
Liz Truss. Mary Elizabeth Truss (born 26 July 1975) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from September to October 2022. On her fiftieth day in office, she stepped down amid a government crisis, making her the shortest-serving prime minister in British history.
The Truss ministry began on 6 September 2022 when Liz Truss was invited by Queen Elizabeth II—two days before the monarch's death—to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister of the United Kingdom. Johnson resigned as leader of the Conservative Party the previous day after Truss was elected as his successor. [ 1 ]
Liz Truss announced a major U-turn on corporation tax after sacking Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor in an effort to reassure markets spooked by the unfunded mini-budget tax cuts.
Kwasi Kwarteng has admitted he “got carried away” during his brief stint as chancellor. Reflecting on Liz Truss’s disastrous seven weeks as prime minister, the chancellor she sacked after he ...
New Lord Chancellor installed (Dominic Lipinski / Press Association via AP file) ... Born in Oxford in 1975, Mary Elizabeth Truss is the daughter of John Kenneth, a math professor at the ...
Ten Years to Save the West is a memoir of the former British prime minister Liz Truss, published on 16 April 2024, [ 1] by Biteback Publishing in the United Kingdom and Regnery Publishing in the United States. [ 2] The UK edition is subtitled "Lessons from the Only Conservative in the Room". The US edition is subtitled "Leading the Revolution ...
The U.K.'s foreign secretary, Liz Truss, has shot ahead of her opponent, Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor of the Exchequer, as the frontrunner in the race to lead the Conservative Party. What ...