{"id":628401,"date":"2026-06-09T00:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628401\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T00:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T00:52:12","slug":"rachel-reeves-economy-is-like-a-beyonce-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628401\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Reeves: Economy is like a Beyonce song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chancellor was mocked over the video on social media, with one user saying: \u201cThis may be the most desperate claim ever made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steph Morgan, a retired police officer, wrote: \u201cHonestly, this woman. When Labour obtained power the economy was beginning to recover and the country was on the up. Back then she talked the country down and wrongly described a \u00a322bn black hole. Now, having taken the economy into a death spiral, she is trying to talk it up!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In October, Ms Reeves was accused of \u201cdodging big issues\u201d after discussing Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s hits in a \u201ccringey\u201d clip on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Reeves has repeatedly insisted she has the \u201cright economic plan\u201d for Britain, citing the IMF\u2019s recent upgrade to its growth forecast as evidence that the country was on the right track.<\/p>\n<p>However, the organisation also suggested that the \u201cdomestic uncertainty\u201d of a <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2026\/05\/28\/labour-leadership-britain-surging-borrowing-costs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Labour leadership election<\/a> risked further hurting growth and investment.<\/p>\n<p>While it was broadly supportive of the Chancellor\u2019s economic plan, it warned that the UK had \u201climited space\u201d to raise taxes further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chancellor was mocked over the video on social media, with one user saying: \u201cThis may be the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[212891,84,1294,92932,19871,50,229,1445,5438,56,1893,225,54,55],"class_list":["post-628401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-beyonceacute","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-hm-treasury","tag-imf","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-rachel-reeves","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-uk-economy","tag-uk-news","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628401","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=628401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}