Washington DC – In a rare public criticism of a sitting UK Prime Minister by a sitting United States president, Joe Biden last week weighed in on the aborted $50 billion tax cuts that cost the short-lived Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng his job.
Responding to a reporter’s question on the withdrawn mini-budget, President Joe Biden observed that he is “not the only one who thought it was a mistake.”
Joe Biden had visited an ice cream parlor with First Lady Dr. Jill Biden during a casual DC stroll. Although Biden had every right to avoid answering questions in that setting, he unusually weighed in on an internal UK political issue that landed the new Prime Minister on the ropes.
Liz Truss is facing unprecedented backlash for a new prime minister with one fellow Tory MP publicly calling for her resignation barely two months into her administration.
Truss appointed a Ghanaian Kwasi Kwarteng as the first black to occupy the coveted Chancellor of the Exchequer position only to be fired after her administration’s mini-budget sent the markets reeling and unleashed a barrage of public backlash.
Kwarteng’s replacement, Jeremy Hunt, after a meeting last Saturday with Truss at her retreat, which some are calling a ‘hideaway’, announced that taxes would go up rather than down as the aborted mini-budget prescribed.
Truss is rumored to have changed her phone number multiple times to the extent that members of her own cabinet have difficulty reaching her.
It is noteworthy that Biden and Truss subscribe to opposing sides of the ideological spectrum. But the political alignment between the two countries has historically masked that divide – until the Biden comment.
The British Prime Minister is not expected to publicly respond to the unusual public jab.
DNT News.
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