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Johnson unchained by Kwarteng’s cartel?
SOLOMON HUGHES asks: does the new ‘free marketeer’ Business Secretary’s appointment mean the PM is abandoning his tilt to the former ‘red wall’?
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THE first time I saw the Kwasi Kwarteng speak, he was telling an audience of Tory Party members that Britain needed to slash taxes back to “pre-war” levels.

The war he meant was World War I. Now he is business secretary.

If a Cabinet minister wants to cut government back to pre-NHS days, what does that mean for Boris Johnson’s “levelling-up” agenda?

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