{"id":453925,"date":"2026-03-02T17:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453925\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:39:09","slug":"reeves-u-turns-on-youth-minimum-wage-hike-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453925\/","title":{"rendered":"Reeves U-Turns on Youth Minimum Wage Hike \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour has executed another U-turn as Reeves backs down on plans to hike the minimum wage for 18-20s. The Low Pay Commission was working on equalising the minimum wage across age groups, they\u2019ve now been stood down\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The FT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0f9e35d8-1908-4394-ab39-556bdf8e437a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> officials have been told the equalisation doesn\u2019t have to happen until next decade. The rates area already going up next month by 8.5% to \u00a310.85 for 18-20-year-olds, approaching the \u00a312.71 for 21s and above. Labour pledged in its manifesto to equalise the rates\u2026<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/order-order.com\/2026\/02\/17\/unemployment-rate-rises-to-highest-level-in-nearly-five-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unemployment skyrocketing<\/a> Reeves has backed off that policy. Now scrap the National Insurance hike\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour has executed another U-turn as Reeves backs down on plans to hike the minimum wage for 18-20s.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,3265,163953,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-453925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-minimum-wage","tag-u-turns","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453925","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=453925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}