{"id":476997,"date":"2026-03-15T13:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/476997\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:33:11","slug":"as-reeves-turns-towards-europe-greens-start-to-think-har","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/476997\/","title":{"rendered":"As Reeves turns towards Europe, Greens start to think har&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">There are signs, however, that the party\u2019s thinking on fiscal policy is becoming more nuanced. Verdant, a thinktank linked to the party, with ex-leader Caroline Lucas as a director, was launched earlier this year. Its co-founder, James Meadway, an economist and former adviser to ex-shadow chancellor John McDonnell, told The Observer: \u201cThe hard reality is that the debt acts as a constraint, and the MMT stuff suggesting you can just wander away and ignore it I think is a nonstarter. The Greens will have to be a lot more creative in thinking through how, for instance, the debt management office operates. Why are we issuing certain kinds of gilt as a government? And are there ways to get this to work more efficiently, and cheaper?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are signs, however, that the party\u2019s thinking on fiscal policy is becoming more nuanced. Verdant, a thinktank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,48375,1634,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-476997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-green-party","tag-labour","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476997","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=476997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}