‘Don’t need a Chancellor if there isn’t any money!’: Social media is flooded with memes after Kwasi Kwarteng is sacked from his post

• Liz Truss has sacked Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng after a matter of weeks in No.11
• Twitter users have reacted to the news with a flood of memes mocking his tenure
• Journalists highlighted headlines and government quotes that have ‘aged badly’
• It comes after Kwarteng insisted he would fight on in role despite policy U-turns

Liz Truss has sacked Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, just weeks after he took the job, with commentators and members of the public blasting his short-lived tenure.

Twitter users have reacted to the news with a flood of memes mocking the abrupt end to his Mr Kwarteng’s time in No. 11.

Meanwhile, journalists highlighted headlines and government quotes that have ‘aged badly’ since the rumours emerged. 

Many were quick to highlight the irony of the front page of today’s Telegraph newspaper, with the headline reading: ‘Kwarteng insists: I’m not going anywhere’.

The New Statesman’s Harry Lambert jokingly captioned it: ‘Souvenir edition’. 

Mr Kwarteng flew back early from talks in the US today to have ‘urgent talks’ with the Prime Minister, before suggestions came out that he is facing the sack.

One Twitter user responded with a mock-up of the Chancellor and Liz Truss as Cher and Dionne in 90s chick flick Clueless, writing ‘Kwasi Kwarteng dashes back from the US to be sacked by Liz Truss?’.

Others could not help but to compare it to Nadhim Zahawi’s short-lived career as Chancellor in the final days of Boris Johnson’s government.

Kwarteng’s departure after just 38 days makes him the second shortest-serving chancellor in modern British politics.  

Zahawi served the third shortest tenure with 62 days during a short-lived reshuffle under Boris Johnson. 

Another post shows a picture of Kwarteng appearing on University Challenge, captioned with ‘”Who was the shortest-serving post-war chancellor not to die in office?” BZZZZTTT “Kwarteng, Cambridge” “Correct”‘.

Others on Twitter called him and Prime Minister Liz Truss ‘toast’ and questioned his mathematics abilities after the mini-budget.

One meme showed a photoshopped Ladybird children’s book entitled ‘Counting with Kwasi’ with a picture of a child writing on a chalk board ‘4 – 5 = 9’.

A cartoon posted by one Tweeter shows a ‘£0’ bank note with Truss and Kwarteng on the front.

The Prime Minister will hold a press conference at 2pm in which she is widely tipped to bow to political and economic pressure to increase corporation tax, abandoning a major policy in the Chancellor’s economic plans. 

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