{"id":284011,"date":"2025-11-26T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T08:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/284011\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T08:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T08:23:08","slug":"oswestry-hospitality-businesses-expect-dim-outlook-from-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/284011\/","title":{"rendered":"Oswestry hospitality businesses expect &#8216;dim outlook&#8217; from Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Businesses in Oswestry said they were not feeling optimistic ahead of Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivering her Budget on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reeves is expected to increase taxes and has said she would make the &#8220;necessary choices&#8221; for the economy, to address NHS waiting lists, the national debt and the cost of living. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The statement will be made in the House of Commons at about 12:30 GMT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jolyon Iles, owner of the Beech Tree, said he was expecting &#8220;a dim outlook&#8221;. &#8220;We are hopeful there will be some sort of relief for hospitality businesses, a reduction in VAT or some other means of alleviating all the other costs we are facing, but we are not optimistic,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Businesses in Oswestry said they were not feeling optimistic ahead of Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivering her Budget on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-284011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284011","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=284011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}