for the first time as prime minister<\/a>, and his Chancellor John Healey. <\/p>\nBurnham told the House of Commons the economy and the cost of living were “the biggest issues facing the country”.<\/p>\n
Higher borrowing costs will reduce the amount of headroom the government has against its self-imposed fiscal rules, limiting the amount Healey can spend on consumer-friendly measures to ease the cost of living. <\/p>\n
Despite the squeezed public finances, Burnham said said he would bring about “more substantial change” to ease living costs.<\/p>\n
“Britain is not where any of us would wish it to be,” he added.<\/p>\n
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch accused Burnham of “living in the past”.<\/p>\n
“His diagnosis is completely wrong,” she told the House of Commons. “His theory of growth is completely wrong. He thinks that if Government spends more money, we will all get richer. <\/p>\n
“That is not how this works.”<\/p>\n
The chancellor has previously said he will stick to a set of fiscal rules imposed by his predecessor Rachel Reeves that restrict borrowing. These rules are designed to help markets have clarity about the path of borrowing.<\/p>\n
The more that is forecast to be spent on interest payments, the more likely that there will be a squeeze on spending or some form of tax rise to meet these rules.<\/p>\n
On top of that, higher government rates can feed through to higher business and household borrowing costs, and so weigh on the economy.<\/p>\n
Burnham was already facing a tough balancing act with taxing and spending, due to pressures on defence and the cost of living.<\/p>\n
As well as the rise to 30-year gilt yields, the yield on the benchmark 10-year gilt rose to 5.22% on Tuesday. This is its highest rate since June 2008, at the height of the global financial crisis. <\/p>\n
Gilt yields move counter to the value of the bonds, meaning their prices fall when yields rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long-term government borrowing costs have risen to a 28-year high, putting further pressure on Prime Minister Andy Burnham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-611680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}