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Daily Mirror – Mini-Budget meltdown: Humiliated Summary of the front page The mini-budget has been dumped by Jeremy Hunt in a catastrophic humiliation for Liz Truss, writes the Daily Mirror. The paper sums it up with the headline: “Humiliated” as it adds the prime minister’s own MPs are plotting a coup. One Tory said Ms Truss has “poured petrol over everything”, it says. The paper also leads with a picture of Rod Stewart alongside a Ukrainian refugee family he is hosting. The paper quotes the rocker as saying he likes to keep his charitable efforts “nice and quiet” but hopes…

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Daily Express – Truss: I’m sorry … we went too far and too fast Summary of the front page Liz Truss has apologised to the nation for the economic pain unleashed by her mini-budget as she battled to save her job, reads the front page of the Daily Express. “I do want to accept responsibility,” she said and privately apologised to MPs for the pain caused by her tax-cutting economic plans, the paper says. The paper also looks at the performance of Jeremy Hunt who said he “showed signs of being someone who just might have the mettle to navigate…

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Founder of online shopping group cements control as Japanese firm offloads its holding at £450m loss THG shares have jumped on the news that Japan’s SoftBank will sell its stake in the troubled British online shopping group to its co-founder Matthew Moulding and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund. The move has cemented Moulding’s control of THG, formerly known as The Hut Group, which owns a range of internet health and beauty retailers, and ended speculation about SoftBank’s disastrous investment. Continue reading… ​Founder of online shopping group cements control as Japanese firm offloads its holding at £450m lossTHG shares have jumped on…

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