{"id":28576,"date":"2025-09-21T03:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/28576\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T03:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:50:17","slug":"uk-budget-deficit-overshoots-forecast-in-new-blow-to-reeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/28576\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Budget Deficit Overshoots Forecast in New Blow to Reeves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">UK government borrowing came in significantly higher than forecast in August, delivering a blow to Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves ahead of a challenging budget in the autumn and sending gilts and the pound lower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The deficit stood at \u00a318 billion ($24.4 billion), the Office for National Statistics said Friday, well above the \u00a312.5 billion the Office for Budget Responsibility had forecast and the highest borrowing for the month in five years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK government borrowing came in significantly higher than forecast in August, delivering a blow to Chancellor of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3473,1577,23503,14126,114,1575,5603,184,234,85,46,24819,4555,1299],"class_list":{"0":"post-28576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-august","9":"tag-bonds","10":"tag-british-pound-spot","11":"tag-budget-deficit","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-debt","14":"tag-economics","15":"tag-economy","16":"tag-government","17":"tag-il","18":"tag-israel","19":"tag-office-for-national-statisti","20":"tag-policy","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}