{"id":231918,"date":"2025-10-29T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/231918\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:08:09","slug":"id-love-to-be-in-number-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/231918\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’d love to be in Number 11!’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eamonn Holmes has delivered a brutal verdict of Rachel Reeves as Chancellor, claiming he could “guarantee” savings for Britons if he was in her place.<\/p>\n

Debating the country’s economic woes on GB News, the Breakfast anchor declared he would “love to be in Number 11”.<\/p>\n

During an International Monetary Fund (IMF) committee, she told leading financial figures that the UK’s productivity challenge has worsened since leaving the European Union (EU).<\/p>\n

Ms Reeves said: “The UK’s productivity challenge has been compounded by the way in which the UK left the European Union.”<\/p>\n

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Eamonn Holmes said he could ‘guarantee he would save Britons money’ if he was Chancellor<\/p>\n

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Taking a swipe at Ms Reeves’s performance as Chancellor, Eamonn told GB News viewers: “I would love to be in Number 11. <\/p>\n

“I could guarantee I would save money for this country. I could fully guarantee it.”<\/p>\n

Hitting out at the state of the UK’s economic growth, Eamonn fumed: “No politician knows how to create economic growth, that’s what really gets me. <\/p>\n

“None of them will turn around and be brave enough to say, we’re going to have to do a limited amount of fracking, or we’re going to have to increase the coffers by doing these projects.”<\/p>\n

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Weighing in on the Chancellor’s efforts to grow the economy, broadcaster Cristo Foufas stated that the “gloomy situation” Ms Reeves speaks of is one she “created herself”.<\/p>\n

He explained: “She’s insisted that Britain can defy gloomy economic forecasts, the gloomy economic situation which she has herself created. <\/p>\n

“She’s made it worse. I don’t doubt that there was a black hole, but now the black hole is even bigger as a result of Rachel Reeves’s decisions, which she’s now saying that we don’t need to be gloomy about it.”<\/p>\n

Suggesting that the economic growth will come with “lowering taxes” instead of increasing them, Mr Foufas told GB News: “If you lower taxes, what that means is that more people have more money in their pocket, and they then spend that money on the high street.<\/p>\n

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Eamonn told the GB News panel that ‘no politician’ knows how to grow the economy<\/p>\n

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“They get their taxes through VAT, they get their taxes through National Insurance because people get employed. That creates economic growth, but what they are doing is just hammering people.”<\/p>\n

Broadcaster Penny Smith interjected and pointed out the impact of Labour’s hike on National Insurance: “Look at National Insurance, you make the employer pay more National Insurance, what happens? <\/p>\n

“Oh, hold on a second, they employ fewer people.”<\/p>\n

Mr Foufas responded: “Exactly, and then that means that more people are on benefits, all this sort of stuff. So they are creating this situation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eamonn Holmes has delivered a brutal verdict of Rachel Reeves as Chancellor, claiming he could “guarantee” savings for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[98375,830,5909,96,50,229,759,28770,391,56,44208,54,55,88857],"class_list":["post-231918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-breakfast-with-eamonn-and-ellie","tag-celebrity","tag-eamonn-holmes","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-presenters","tag-shows","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-uk-politics","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-video-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231918","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=231918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}