{"id":504086,"date":"2026-06-21T15:09:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/504086\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T15:09:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T15:09:26","slug":"uk-budget-deficit-hits-23-3-billion-in-may-highest-since-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/504086\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Budget Deficit Hits \u00a323.3 Billion in May, Highest Since Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Debt-interest costs saw UK government borrowing rise to the highest level for any May in six years, underscoring the fiscal challenges awaiting any successor to Prime Minister Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The budget deficit came in at \u00a323.3 billion ($30.7 billion) after a record interest bill for the month, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday. It was well above the \u00a318.9 billion forecast by economists and up \u00a35.4 billion on a year ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Debt-interest costs saw UK government borrowing rise to the highest level for any May in six years, underscoring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14126,114,1575,9575,5603,184,234,85,87,46,11080,24819,238,3695,1299,2201],"class_list":["post-504086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-budget-deficit","tag-business","tag-debt","tag-economic-growth","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-government","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-manchester","tag-office-for-national-statisti","tag-politics","tag-retail","tag-united-kingdom","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504086","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=504086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}