{"id":117242,"date":"2025-11-04T10:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/117242\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:37:07","slug":"reeves-paves-way-for-tax-hikes-pledges-to-cut-uk-debt-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/117242\/","title":{"rendered":"Reeves Paves Way for Tax Hikes, Pledges to Cut UK Debt Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves declined to reiterate Labour\u2019s manifesto commitment against broad-based tax hikes, as she made an unusual appeal to the British public to support her upcoming budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">In a rare pre-budget speech in Downing Street carried on national broadcasters, Reeves argued she would prioritize bringing down borrowing costs and inflation, and blamed the previous Conservative administration for putting lasting pressure on the public finances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves declined to reiterate Labour\u2019s manifesto commitment against broad-based tax hikes, as she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[58355,138,19765,5399,83123,219,266,1943,19083,111,139,83169,69,135,2373,2025],"class_list":{"0":"post-117242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-conservative","11":"tag-debt","12":"tag-downing-street","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-government","15":"tag-inflation","16":"tag-july-sarl-caen","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nhs-sas","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-taxes","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}