UK bets all on tax cuts and borrowing

Kwasi Kwarteng
UK finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng is slashing taxes, relying on growth to pay for it. -EPA

Britain's new finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng has unleashed historic tax cuts and huge increases in borrowing in an economic agenda that floored financial markets, with sterling and British government bonds in freefall.

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