Kwasi Sacked

[MargoTester]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-63221738

[jno]

widely predicted, even by the sages of AB...

[Bazile]

Someone check the cupboards please

[Zacs-Master]

That should see a few cents on the pound in the next half hour.

[naomi24]

Is Truss going to take some responsibility? After all, she appointed him and supported him.

[Untitled]

imagine waiting for years to get your shot at putting your extremist ideology into practise and when you finally get it, it fails so spectacularly that you’re gone less than a month later

awful chancellor

[maggiebee]

One down, one to go

[jno]

all prime ministers appoint chancellors, naomi, and most end up sacking them however much they've supported them along the way. However, it's clearly panic stations through the entire party at the moment, so she may well end up on the bonfire too.

[Zacs-Master]

I don' think it will affect Nicola, Maggie

[naomi24]

//all prime ministers appoint chancellors//

Indeed, jno, but the circumstances here are somewhat ... unique. That's the most polite word I can find ... at the moment.

[naomi24]

You're right, zacs. No worries, maggiebee. Nicola is safe at the moment.

[anneasquith]

Is he totally to blame ? I’m assuming LT knew what his budget contained.

[jno]

on the contrary, I think it makes Nicola look better than ever. There's an actual functioning British political leader still at work.

[FatticusInch]

PMSL @ Sunny Dave!!

[Untitled]

i agree with naomi (gasp!)... chancellor is one of the most important offices and getting rid of him so soon undermines her authority hugely

[Gromit]

That didn’t take long.

Who she now appoints, and what they do will be crucial to her survival.

[Redhelen72]

I thought he must surely be the shortest serving chancellor ever but apparently not - someone died in post after 30 days.

[Bazile]

A classic example of a Patsy .

[FatticusInch]

Truss is finished too, credibility zero, decision-making dire, tactical and politically inept.

Let’s get the GE out of the way and be done with it.

[LadyCG]

That's the best news I have heard today.