As U.K.'s Prime Minister Liz Truss fights for job, new finance minister says she made mistakes

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The fact that Jeremy Hunt is Britain\u0027s fourth finance minister in four months is testament to a political crisis that has gripped Britain since Johnson was…

“The thing that people want, the markets want, the country needs now, is stability,” Hunt said. “No chancellor can control the markets. But what I can do is show that we can pay for our tax and spending plans and that is going to need some very difficult decisions on both spending and tax.”

“There was a very clear and immediate meeting of minds between us about the importance of fiscal sustainability and the importance of taking measures to do that,” Bailey said in Washington on Saturday. “Of course, there was an important measure taken yesterday.” “Giving certainty over public finances, how we’re going to pay for every penny that we get through the tax and spending decisions we make, those are very, very important ways that I can give certainty and help create the stability,” he said.

Kwarteng’s Sept. 23 fiscal statement prompted a backlash in financial markets that was so ferocious the BoE had to intervene to prevent pension funds being caught up in the chaos as borrowing costs surged.Article contentHunt, an experienced minister and viewed by many in his party as a safe pair of hands, said he agreed with Truss’s fundamental strategy of kickstarting economic growth, but he added that their approach had not worked.

The fact that Hunt is Britain’s fourth finance minister in four months is testament to a political crisis that has gripped Britain since Johnson was ousted following a series of scandals.Article content

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