{"id":672942,"date":"2026-07-04T06:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672942\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T06:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T06:03:12","slug":"council-tax-bombshell-bills-to-rise-54-in-flagship-london-borough-hit-by-labour-funding-reforms-london-evening-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672942\/","title":{"rendered":"Council tax bombshell: Bills &#039;to rise 54%&#039; in flagship London borough hit by Labour funding reforms &#8211; London Evening Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimwFBVV95cUxPd1Q0a1FyN0tac1l2aTNzR2FfVWwtV3d1UXNwcDBSSGtHWVk4MFYxNl9wcXZjaHBfS21lWURscXNWV0RMLUViZnZDSEEyUnJ6cnR1TjFRbE1JNEFqRWRlM1JnUEQzLWYzdEV2d2Eta1UtYWkyeF8wdzNsYVdmSmdENG9nQi1FSUlTd1dxNWFqNzVkVVFxZkM2N1d0Zw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Council tax bombshell: Bills &#8216;to rise 54%&#8217; in flagship London borough hit by Labour funding reforms<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;London Evening Standard<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWEFVX3lxTE0tdjFLVThCQjBMd0l3ZWNGcC1WQVpQVDE4OGdGeUJacHJGTFdZQV94Smd5QnZndkxRMU1wNlhNdUlrVHJhQ1AzLThTVENQWlhOMHczcnRwS0c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Your budget choices<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Westminster City Council<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi0gFBVV95cUxOYmI5V1c3aW5La2FJN1ZKRElQNjdzSTZzZnlWNFA2SXFCSGQtMnVRTHlfYW5tQzV2VGZZS3pyNkJLMWV3VVJfbkI2WExNY1BjNEpJXzZRMWl1VGZuWlJiME5SeHIxTjFVTDh0Q1dtb2MtLWIzMkdXM1BQOWdsakxtdlJQNjVGcTVaRmtPMGgxZGdDV0hEdlhMZ0haTzcyUDdIRDBSa0EtdENsN0ZSWG5GdkYyeVN1T0ltMXljVi1hNGFMUUZpbHpOY3IxU1U5QndDZ2c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">London authority could double council tax amid &#8216;tough&#8217; climate<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;MSN<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMigwFBVV95cUxQakcta18zNnlDaHhSeS1NT1UwNzBpUklCT1BkTUZteGlibXhDWkJMRHpqX0gzQ2Y3cHA3SnJYRGk2WWtSVnM5Wnc1d0tWSVp2VThUMVpiZjhnMjdla0tXMTEyT2VmZWM3UXZRTGhYam5Hbmd0SzE0WS1YaVhQcExYN1FEcw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Council tax could be doubled in central London authority as it admits there are \u2018no easy options\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;AOL.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Council tax bombshell: Bills &#8216;to rise 54%&#8217; in flagship London borough hit by Labour funding reforms&nbsp;&nbsp;London Evening StandardYour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44162,4435,59,57,58,71766,50,56,54,55,2915],"class_list":["post-672942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-business-rates","tag-council-tax","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-greater-london-authority","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-westminster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672942","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=672942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}