Kwasi Kwarteng

‘A private jet to, say, California?’: Rachel Reeves’s best budget day jokes

Chancellor poked fun at Rishi Sunak, Kemi Badenoch and Kwasi Kwarteng in a budget tradition

Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

30, Oct, 2024 @6:27 PM

A question bugged me: what would I say if I met the talented Mr Kwarteng? Here’s how that turned out | Nels Abbey

He blew up as chancellor and crashed the UK economy, but when we clashed on TV, he certainly stood his ground, says author and broadcaster Nels Abbey

Nels Abbey

24, Aug, 2024 @7:00 AM

The Guardian view on record payouts for CEOs: the way they live now | Editorial

Editorial: The latest High Pay Centre report confirms the persistent and damaging culture of entitlement at the top of business

Editorial

12, Aug, 2024 @5:30 PM

UK general election: suspended Labour candidate says he regrets betting on Tories to win in his constituency – as it happened

Kevin Craig says he ‘will take the consequences of this stupid error of judgment on the chin’

Nadeem Badshah with Andrew Sparrow and Helen Sullivan

25, Jun, 2024 @7:12 PM

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

Martin Pengelly in Washington

02, May, 2024 @4:01 AM

Ten Years to Save the West by Liz Truss review – economical with the truth about her own downfall

The former PM’s whingeing, unintentionally hilarious and scapegoating rant about the economy-crashing disaster of her time in No 10 is best read as a cautionary tale of hubristic zeal

Andrew Rawnsley

21, Apr, 2024 @4:30 PM

The Guardian view on budget tax cuts: stealing from the public | Editorial

Editorial: For the chancellor to yield to his rightwing obsessives would be bad economics and bad politics

Editorial

29, Feb, 2024 @6:42 PM

Bring back Boris Johnson, Kwasi Kwarteng tells Rishi Sunak

Ex-chancellor calls on Sunak to ‘swallow some pride’ and bring back ‘electoral force’ that is former PM

Ben Quinn Political correspondent

11, Feb, 2024 @11:38 AM

Do I feel sorry for Kwasi Kwarteng as he departs frontline politics? No – and nor does anyone with a mortgage | Nels Abbey

There will be kind words for a man who flew high in government, but not from me, says author and broadcaster Nels Abbey

Nels Abbey

07, Feb, 2024 @3:48 PM

Liz Truss and Jacob Rees-Mogg attack ‘left-wing extremists’ and ‘Davos man’ at launch of new Tory group – as it happened

Speakers at the ‘PopCons’ event in London attacked the ECHR, WHO, Davos attendees, ‘anti-capitalists’ and ‘wokery’

Andrew Sparrow and Martin Belam

06, Feb, 2024 @5:33 PM

Kwasi Kwarteng to stand down as MP at next election

Former chancellor oversaw ill-fated ‘mini-budget’ in 2022 and was sacked by Liz Truss after only 38 days

Ben Quinn Political correspondent

06, Feb, 2024 @10:09 AM

‘People said it did in his career’: 33 pictures that defined British politicians

From the Bullingdon boys to a bacon sandwich; Margaret Thatcher in a tank to Theresa May dancing … these landmark images shaped how we saw our leaders

Jonathan Freedland

03, Feb, 2024 @7:00 AM