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Defiant Liz Truss faces full-scale Tory revolt as she plots to cut benefits for poor

One Nation Tory Damian Green said Liz Truss would 'probably not' get benefit cuts through Parliament - as even serving minister Penny Mordaunt warned she must not 'help people with one hand and take away with another'

Daily Mirror

Row over Universal Credit and other DWP benefits amid fears of Liz Truss cut

Ms Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng may announce a real-terms cut in benefits

Wales Online

Pound at two-week high as FTSE 100 posts best day since June – as it happened

Chancellor denies reports that he will bring his medium-term fiscal plans forward to this month, despite pressure from markets and MPs

The Guardian - UK

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Tory rebel Grant Shapps says Liz Truss has admitted that she rushed into tax cut

Tory rebel Grant Shapps insisted on Monday that he did not want Liz Truss to be toppled as Prime Minister after the humiliating U-turn over the top rate of tax.

Evening Standard

Warning to Kwarteng that delay in releasing plans could mean mortgage pain for millions

Senior Tory urges chancellor to bring forward 23 November fiscal statement to this month

The Independent UK

Kwasi Kwarteng to keep expert OBR Budget verdict secret for nearly two months

Chancellor resists calls for ‘reset moment’ for economy despite OBR promising forecast next Friday

The Independent UK

Top Tory bizarrely claims mini-Budget 'so detailed' it couldn't be assessed by watchdog

Treasury Minister Andrew Griffith suggested the Office for Budget Responsibility would have struggled to get through the 40-page document in time - directly contradicting the watchdog

Daily Mirror

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PM and Chancellor to meet budget watchdog boss as market turmoil continues

THE embattled Prime Minister and her Chancellor will meet with the head of the Office of Budget Responsibility on Friday, in the latest effort by…

The National (Scotland)

Liz Truss to hold emergency talks with budget watchdog amid market turmoil

The Prime Minister and the Chancellor will meet with the head of the Office of Budget Responsibility today

Manchester Evening News

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng promise to work ‘closely’ with OBR after meeting amid market turmoil

The Prime Minister and Chancellor will “work closely” with the Office for Budget Responsibility in the coming weeks, the Treasury said

Evening Standard

Bombshell polls throw massive question mark over Liz Truss’s future as PM

Tory meltdown after ‘unforced error’ Budget gifts Keir Starmer leads of up to 33 points

The Independent UK

Treasury watchdog to ask Kwarteng to hand over growth forecasts

Tory chair Mel Stride says committee needs to hear how chancellor will boost growth, and suggests one option might be via immigration

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss warned businesses will ‘go on strike’ by halting investment without clear plan

Companies ‘won’t invest until they see some clarity’, says business chief Martin Sorrell

The Independent UK

Ministers could scrap inflation-linked benefits rise amid economic turmoil

Treasury minister Chris Philp has refused to commit to an expected uprating of benefits in line with inflation

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Where is Liz Truss? PM 'missing' as UK descends into chaos after disastrous mini-budget

Liz Truss, who has not spoken in public for a week, is finally breaking cover on Friday morning after the Tories' disastrous mini-budget announcement spooked markets

Wales Online

Letters of no confidence in Liz Truss 'already being put in' by Tory MPs

It comes as the pound has hit an all-time low against the US dollar

The Guardian - UK

Tory backbenchers despair at ‘toxic’ mini-budget

Divisions of leadership contest return to the fore as some MPs criticise extra borrowing to pay for tax cuts

The Guardian - UK

Silencing mini-budget analysis will not help Truss woo the markets

Government needs independent verification of policies if it is to win vital finance sector confidence

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The Guardian - UK

Cost to taxpayer of Truss’s £100bn energy package has escaped scrutiny

MPs had no chance to question Jacob Rees-Mogg’s announcement and there is no one marking Kwasi Kwarteng’s homework

The Guardian - UK

Kwasi Kwarteng refuses to let OBR release forecasts with mini-budget

Tory chair of Treasury committee says assessments on economic impact of planned tax cuts vital to provide reassurance to markets

The Independent UK

MPs demand economic forecast alongside Kwarteng’s mini-budget

The Tory chairman of the Treasury Committee said such data is needed to ‘provide reassurance and confidence to international markets and investors’.

The Guardian - UK

Economic watchdog confirms it could scrutinise Truss’s cost of living plans

MPs say it is vital tax and spending measures proposed by potential new prime minister are examined by OBR

The Independent UK

Fiscal watchdog ready to publish forecast for new PM’s spending plans

The OBR’s confirmation puts the new government in the position of having to formally reject its offer.

The Guardian - UK

Kwasi Kwarteng’s opaque stance on BT ownership is not helping

The company really does not need to take an excursion into high-leverage financial engineering

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak attacks Liz Truss’s plans to curb Bank of England’s independence

Former chancellor says rival’s economic proposals could ‘spook international investors’

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