The business secretary, Jacob Rees-Mogg, has accused the BBC of breaching its duty of impartiality by linking the drop in the pound and instability in pension funds to Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-budget.
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'You suggest something is causal, which is a speculation,' Rees-Mogg said. 'What has caused the effect in pension funds … is not necessarily the mini-budget. I think jumping to conclusions about causality is not meeting the BBC requirement for impartiality'.

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