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Exclusive: Mark Fullbrook said to have acted as Fathi Bashagha’s ‘PR adviser’, as officials were lobbied on foreign policy Mark Fullbrook, the No 10 chief of staff, accompanied a controversial Libyan politician involved in an attempted military coup to a meeting in the Foreign Office to lobby officials on foreign policy, raising further questions over his influence. Labour has said Fullbrook’s position as Liz Truss’s most senior official is “untenable” after it emerged he facilitated unofficial meetings in June with senior cabinet ministers for Fathi Bashagha, a Libyan politician. Bashagha, who is seeking international support as a rival prime minister,…

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New chancellor tells Commons there will be tax rises and spending cuts, as PM dodges urgent question The new chancellor Jeremy Hunt has shredded Liz Truss’s economic plans in one of the most astonishing U-turns in modern political history, including slashing the energy price freeze which the prime minister had repeatedly championed. Hunt dismantled almost all of the platform that Truss’s leadership victory had been built on, including the majority of her tax cuts, and hinted a fresh windfall tax was in his sights – a move the PM had previously said she would not countenance. Continue reading… ​New chancellor…

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