Liz Truss fired her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng on Friday and scrapped parts of their economic package in a desperate bid to stay in power and survive the market and political turmoil gripping the country.
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Kwarteng said he had resigned at Truss's request after being forced to rush back to London overnight from IMF meetings in Washington. Kwarteng is the country's shortest serving chancellor since 1970, and his successor will be the fourth finance minister in as many months in Britain, where millions are facing a cost of living crisis. The chancellor with the shortest tenure died.
Here is a look back at Kwarteng's last 24 hours as chancellor.
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