Social media is flooded with memes after Kwasi Kwarteng is sacked from his post

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’.

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.

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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.

 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.

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.