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From Sky News:
//Truss may as well have told Kwarteng 'it's not you, it's me'
When prime ministers sack senior figures in their government, the convention is to send a polite letter praising their achievements and wishing them well.
Liz Truss has gone a stage further in her letter to Kwasi Kwarteng, lamenting the fact that she has had to lose him so soon, full of regret and sorrow.
But it’s pretty clear what actually happened - he sets it out in no uncertain terms in his letter to her.
"You have asked me to stand aside as your Chancellor. I have accepted," he writes.
And yet she replies: "As a long-standing friend I am deeply sorry to lose you."
She goes on: "I deeply respect the decision you have taken today."
It makes you wonder, has she just misjudged the tone or has she forgotten that she’s the one who has unceremoniously ditched him just six weeks into his chancellorship to save her own skin?
She may as well have written: "It’s not you, it’s me."//
Sounds about right.
But what happens now to the ‘plan for growth’? The last plan crashed the markets and tanked the economy, increased mortgages and shook everyone, so what will a new Chancellor do?
She signed off on all that and backed it, so now what?
She’s only confirmed she’s clearly unfit for purpose.