Daily Mirror apologizes for mistaking wrong person for UK's finance minister
UK tabloid uses picture of Bank of America executive on website instead of Kwasi Kwarteng
A screenshot of the tweet by Kwasi Kwarteng, UK's Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng
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The Daily Mirror apologized Saturday after it mistakenly used a picture of the wrong person to illustrate a story about UK's Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng on its website.
The newly appointed chancellor noticed the error and tweeted that he was not the man in the picture, prompting The Daily Mirror to issue an apology.
The apology came after Kwarteng tweeted a screenshot of an online story about the mini-budget, featuring a picture of Bernard Mensah, the president of international for Bank of America.
“That isn’t me… @DailyMirror” the minister wrote in a tweet.
That isn’t me… @DailyMirror pic.twitter.com/rcxn4VjoNW
— Kwasi Kwarteng (@KwasiKwarteng) October 1, 2022
The British daily tabloid responded by saying it was a “terrible error” and added that “the Mirror has a long history of working against racism and we will redouble our efforts on this.” Its article was also updated with a picture of the minister.
The photograph was incorrectly captioned with the words: “Kwasi Kwarteng said he had to do ‘something different’ with mini-budget.”
Kwarteng is Britain’s first Black chancellor and the first Black to serve in one of the country’s four Great Offices of State.
