{"id":597236,"date":"2026-05-22T02:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597236\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T02:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:11:09","slug":"reeves-targets-cost-of-living-crisis-with-vat-cut-on-theme-parks-and-kids-meals-channel-4-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/597236\/","title":{"rendered":"Reeves targets cost of living crisis with VAT cut on theme parks and kids\u2019 meals \u2013 Channel 4 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has unveiled a three-hundred-million-pound \u201cGreat British Summer Savings\u201d package designed to ease the cost-of-living squeeze on families triggered by the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Measures include cutting VAT on summer attractions like theme parks and children\u2019s meals, alongside a suspension of import tariffs on more than one hundred food products.<\/p>\n<p>But the government has stopped short of offering an immediate winter energy bailout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has unveiled a three-hundred-million-pound \u201cGreat British Summer Savings\u201d package designed to ease the cost-of-living&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-597236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597236","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=597236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}