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Javid quitting as chancellor plunges government in ‘chaos’ just two months after general election
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former Chancellor Sajid Javid on the campaign trail during last year’s general election

SAJID JAVID resigned as chancellor today just two months following the general election after Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered him to fire his closest aides.

His resignation came less than a month before the first post-Brexit Budget and just two weeks after Britain left the EU, and was described as a “historical record” by Labour’s John McDonnell.

“A government in chaos within weeks of an election,” the shadow chancellor said.

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