From mini-budget to market turmoil: Kwasi Kwarteng’s week

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The new chancellor has been caught up in international controversy after announcing sweeping tax cuts in a mini-budget which resulted in a plunge in the pound, soaring mortgage rates and a £65bn intervention by the Bank of England to bail out pension funds. We look back at a week of market turmoil

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