New UK finance minister vows to show markets he can fix budget

Investors have sold British government bonds heavily since Sept. 23 when Hunt’s predecessor as finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, announced a string of unfunded tax cuts.

Truss – who won the leadership of the Conservative Party barely a month ago after promising to slash taxes – fired Kwarteng on Friday and has ditched key parts of the programme they agreed together. But Hunt has said he will go further including increases in taxes as well as a tighter control on public spending.

Asked whether he thought financial markets would have confidence in his plans, Hunt told the BBC: “Well, I think, you know, for people trading the markets, actions speak louder than words.” A first test will come on Monday morning when trading in Britain’s battered government bonds resumes without the support of the Bank of England’s emergency bond-buying programme which expired on Friday.

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