{"id":239654,"date":"2025-11-02T13:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239654\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:33:20","slug":"reeves-plots-bolder-uk-budget-as-labour-fears-tinkering-wont-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/239654\/","title":{"rendered":"Reeves Plots Bolder UK Budget as Labour Fears Tinkering Won\u2019t Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Rachel Reeves is considering bolder and more progressive tax changes at her upcoming UK budget than some investors and Labour lawmakers are expecting, as she seeks to head off criticisms that she is only tinkering with Britain\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The chancellor has told allies the Nov. 26 statement will be a major budget requiring bigger measures, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke anonymously because the contents of the set-piece are still in flux. A productivity downgrade by the Office for Budget Responsibility that\u2019s punched an extra \u00a320 billion ($26 billion) hole in the public finances provides an opening to make larger changes to the tax system to make it fairer, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rachel Reeves is considering bolder and more progressive tax changes at her upcoming UK budget than some investors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[934,14525,59,55458,57,58,641,73342,50,305,229,101055,1892,99411,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-239654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-brexit","tag-gambling","tag-gb","tag-generic-1st-cl-future","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-iphone","tag-labour-party-the","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-tax-code","tag-taxes","tag-twitter-inc","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239654","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=239654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}