Truss Dumps UK Corporation Tax Freeze Plan After Firing Ally

  • Kwarteng replaced by Hunt as chancellor after only five weeks
  • U-turn on tax unpicks major plank of Truss’s economic platform
WATCH: Truss announces the reversal of her plans to freeze corporation tax next year and defends her firing of Kwarteng.Source: Bloomberg
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Liz Truss scrapped her plan to freeze corporation tax next year in another dramatic U-turn, hours after she fired her ally Kwasi Kwarteng and replaced him with Jeremy Hunt as UK Chancellor of the Exchequer.