Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng to meet OBR chief after week of turmoil – UK politics live

Emergency talks with head of Office for Budget Responsibility follow dramatic market changes since last Friday’s mini-budget

Former chancellor George Osborne called it a “welcome move” after it emerged that Liz Truss and chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will meet with the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) on Friday.

He tweeted: “In the space of one week we’ve gone from the OBR being dismissed to the PM turning up to its meetings.

This growth plan is full of detail about how this government is going to grow the economy. 40 pages.

Details of infrastructure plans that have been long held up that we are going to crack through, detail about how we are going to bring forward the new clean energy revolution.

To be honest, I am not going to answer that, I just don’t know. It is quite chunky.

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