{"id":617145,"date":"2026-09-07T11:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/617145\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:10:12","slug":"healey-acknowledges-high-government-borrowing-costs-but-wont-be-drawn-on-tax-changes-in-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/617145\/","title":{"rendered":"Healey acknowledges high government borrowing costs but won&#8217;t be drawn on tax changes in Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour made &#8216;very strong, very clear, very specific&#8217; commitments on tax, chancellor sayspublished at 10:50 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:50 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the final round of questions, Healey is once again asked if taxes will be raised and if Labour would scrap the pension triple lock to fund support for young people amid high youth unemployment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The chancellor says Labour made &#8220;very strong, very clear, very specific&#8221; commitments on tax in its 2024 manifesto, adding that &#8220;this is what we are keeping&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;On tax specifics, I&#8217;m the chancellor less than two months out from the Budget, I&#8217;m not going to speculate on questions of tax,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Answering a separate question before finishing, he explains how he will achieve his direction for growth given the challenging fiscal backdrop. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says: &#8220;My defining mission as chancellor is growth, good growth in<br \/>\nevery postcode. And I&#8217;ve set out today the way this government will set about it: more<br \/>\ndevolution, more public leadership and control, more investment, more<br \/>\ninnovation, more jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      The speech has now concluded. We&#8217;ll bring you a round up of the top lines from Healey and analysis from our correspondents in the next few posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour made &#8216;very strong, very clear, very specific&#8217; commitments on tax, chancellor sayspublished at 10:50 BST 10:50 BST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-617145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617145","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=617145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}