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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 16 September 2022 - Unemployment lowest since 1974
Description: Kwasi Kwarteng, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will deliver a mini-budget on September 23rd in which he will not only deliver the Governmentโs ideas on how it plans to deal with the cost-of-living crisis, but equally importantly, how it will fund them.
This will be something of a baptism of fire for the new Chancellor, who has been rewarded for his unstinting support of new Prime Minister Liz Truss by being promoted into one of the top three jobs in the Cabinet.
It is understood that the dual focus of the Budget will be on energy and tax cuts.
He...