Kwasi Kwarteng: I told Liz Truss to slow down on economic agenda

The ex-chancellor said he first learned of his firing via a tweet as he travelled to a meeting with Ms Truss in Downing Street.

Kwasi Kwarteng says Liz Truss sacked him for implementing the policies she had campaigned on (Victoria Jones/PA)

Kwasi Kwarteng has said he told Liz Truss to “slow down” her radical economic reforms or risk being out of No 10 within “two months”.

He also criticised the then-British prime minister’s “mad” decision to sack him as chancellor for implementing her tax-cutting agenda, in a bombshell first interview since his ousting.