Jacob Rees-Mogg attacked over mini-budget claims
The business secretary is criticised for blaming market turmoil on the UK’s failure to raise interest rates fast enough. …
He said the “trade shock” because of Brexit is a factor, and added: “You throw on the September 23 event, you’ve got a sidelined financial watchdog, you’ve got lack of a medium-term fiscal plan, one of the largest unfunded tax cuts we’ve seen since the early 1970s, it was kind of the straw that broke the camel’s back.”