UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has claimed “the government is on the side of the British people” as he announced a series of major tax changes in this morning’s “mini budget”.

Kyra Motley, a partner at Boodle Hatfield, said these were “interesting points” to come out of the chancellor’s statement, adding it will be “very interesting to see these changes.”

Caroline Le Jeune, head of tax at Blick Rothenberg, said: “In 25 years of analysing budgets this must be t...