{"id":120947,"date":"2025-11-06T11:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/120947\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:10:08","slug":"uk-budget-reeves-sees-reward-in-keeping-lid-on-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/120947\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Budget: Reeves Sees Reward in Keeping Lid on Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Rachel Reeves stands to be the biggest beneficiary of her own efforts to bring down UK inflation and help with the cost of living in this month\u2019s budget \u2014 but only if she gets it right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Chancellor of the Exchequer said this week she was focusing inflation-busting efforts on energy and food prices, suggesting there would be measures in the budget to address gas and power bills and boost retailers. The aim is to steer the rate of price rises back toward the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/3710Z:LN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Bank of England\u2019s<\/a> 2% target, setting the conditions for further cuts in interest rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rachel Reeves stands to be the biggest beneficiary of her own efforts to bring down UK inflation and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,1951,219,564,266,1943,3508,1619,28771,111,139,69,7254,135,41050,2025,2988],"class_list":{"0":"post-120947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economics","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-food","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-inflation","14":"tag-interest-rates","15":"tag-london","16":"tag-minimum-wage","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-policy","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-u-s-environmental-protection-agency","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-washington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120947","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=120947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}