Who sacked Kwasi Kwarteng?
British Conservative Party politician, Akwasi Addo Alfred Kwarteng was born in the London Borough of Waltham Forest on 26 May 1975, the only child of Alfred K. Kwarteng and Charlotte Boaitey-Kwarteng, who had emigrated from Ghana as students in the 1960s. Kwarteng was elected Conservative Party MP as part of a new group of politicians…
British Conservative Party politician, Akwasi Addo Alfred Kwarteng was born in the London Borough of Waltham Forest on 26 May 1975, the only child of Alfred K. Kwarteng and Charlotte Boaitey-Kwarteng, who had emigrated from Ghana as students in the 1960s.
Kwarteng was elected Conservative Party MP as part of a new group of politicians called the “class of 2010,” the BBC reported. A supporter of Brexit, Kwarteng backed Boris Johnson’s prime ministerial bid and served as a Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in his administration.
Who sacked Kwasi Kwarteng?
UK finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng was fired from his post only weeks into the job, making him Britain’s second shortest-serving Chancellor of the Exchequer. Kwarteng served for 38 days on the job; Tory Chancellor Ian Macleod had served for 30 days in 1970 before he died after a heart attack.
The Times had previously reported that Prime Minister Liz Truss was expected to fire Kwarteng and would soon announce plans to backtrack on significant parts of her “mini-budget” that were unveiled on September 23.
Kwarteng had insisted on Thursday that he was “not going anywhere”. But on Friday, he tweeted a letter addressed to Truss, stating that he was no longer serving as Chancellor after he was asked to “stand aside”.
