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Kwasi Kwarteng calls Liz Truss ‘kind of Trumpian’ over firing by tweet
Ex-chancellor and Truss were close political allies and friends before he was sacked over a crisis stoked by the mini-budget
Kwasi Kwarteng, the chancellor of the exchequer for 43 of Liz Truss’s 49 days as British prime minister, has said Truss “essentially” sacked him “on Twitter”, a dismissal he called “kind of Trumpian” in its swiftness and brutality as Britain fell into crisis.
Kwarteng said: “One of the things that I feel bad about, among other things, was that she capitulated very quickly [to pressure to sack him]. So I came back and I was sacked, essentially on Twitter. So, kind of Trumpian.”
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