{"id":194077,"date":"2025-10-12T02:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194077\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T02:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:54:12","slug":"uks-120-billion-investment-not-yet-coming-to-starmers-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194077\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s \u00a3120 Billion Investment Not Yet Coming to Starmer\u2019s Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Keir Starmer\u2019s \u201cdefining mission\u201d of spurring stronger growth in the UK economy relies on investment that so far is barely showing up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The British prime minister\u2019s Labour government has ramped up planned spending on buildings, railways and IT, with Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves committing an extra \u00a3120 billion ($160 billion) over five years to provide the infrastructure that the UK\u2019s public services require.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer\u2019s \u201cdefining mission\u201d of spurring stronger growth in the UK economy relies on investment that so far&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,84820,460,4229,1294,461,2184,80,464,84819,229,1892,79,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-194077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-chancellor-masters-scholar","tag-debt","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-elections","tag-gdp","tag-government","tag-infrastructure","tag-national-wealth-fund-ltd","tag-politics","tag-taxes","tag-torsten-bell","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}